Last updated: 9 june, 2010 - 13:12 GMT
Jann Martel
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Jann Martel's previous novel 'Life of Pi' became a publishing phenomenon in 2001.
It won the Booker Prize in 2002 and went on to be translated into 38 languages and sell more than seven million copies around the world.
His follow-up novel 'Beatrice and Virgil' has just been published.
We talk to him about the pressures of success and why he chose to write about The Holocaust using animal characters.
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