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The Life of Pi Illustration Contest

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THE RULES AND HOW TO ENTER

The Times, in association with Canongate Books, is offering readers the chance to illustrate a new edition of Yann Martel’s best-selling and Booker prizewinning Life of Pi, to be published next year.

Amateur and professional artists are invited to submit one illustration of a scene of their choice from the book. From these entries the panel of judges will create a shortlist of five artists, who will then be asked to create sketches for the whole book. One winner will illustrate the final book which is expected to comprise at least 25 black and white plates and six in full colour. The contract with Canongate is worth £5,000.

ENTRIES should be sent to Life of Pi Competition, Books, The Times, 1 Pennington Street, London E98 1TT or e-mailed as a JPG file to pi@thetimes.co.uk. Entries cannot be acknowledged, and can be returned only if correct packaging and postage is supplied. The Times is not responsible for any lost entries. Entries must be clearly labelled with the artist’s name, address and telephone number. Entries must be received by midnight on December 10, 2005. The shortlist will be announced in The Times on January 14, 2006, and shortlisted artists will be contacted prior to announcement. A second round of submissions will then be required, and the single winner will be announced in May 2006.

The judging panel is Jamie Byng (publisher, Canongate), Erica Wagner (Literary Editor of The Times), Yann Martel (author of Life of Pi), Marc Quinn (artist) and Peter Brookes (cartoonist for The Times). The decision of the judging panel will be final and no correspondence will be entered into in connection with that decision.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The winner will receive a cheque for £5,000. Though they will retain the copyright in their work, the payment will be in return for exclusive licensing of the worldwide rights in their work to Canongate Books. The winning illustrator will have no right to any royalty or other payment on any sales of the book itself, nor will they receive any additional fees or payment, other than the £5,000. However, if Canongate Books sells rights in the work abroad, there will be a 50/50 split between Canongate Books and the winning illustrator of any receipts of such sale, less expenses. The winning illustrator and Canongate Books will enter into an agreement to reflect the above.