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Michael Ondaatje

Canadian novelist and poet (born 1943)

Philip Michael OndaatjeCC FRSL (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.[1]

Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing The Dainty Monsters, and then in 1970 the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid.[2] His novel The English Patient (1992), adapted into a film in 1996[2] and won the 1992 Golden Man Booker Prize.[3]

Ondaatje has been "fostering new Canadian writing"[4] with two decades commitment to Coach House Press (ca. 1970–1990), and his editorial credits include the journal Brick, and the Long Poem Anthology (1979), among others.[4]

Early life and education

Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1943, to Major Mervyn Ondaatje and Doris Gratiaen of Tamil and Burgher descent (Dutch and Sinhalese).[4][5] In 1954, he re-joined his mother in England.[4] where he attended Dulwich College. He emigrated to

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Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient
3.86 avg rating — 135,775 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions
Warlight
3.60 avg rating — 45,804 ratings — published 2018 — 88 editions
The Cat's Table
3.62 avg rating — 26,999 ratings — published 2011 — 86 editions
In the Skin of a Lion
3.85 avg rating — 18,730 ratings — published 1987 — 76 editions
Anil's Ghost
3.58 avg rating — 18,423 ratings — published 2000 — 107 editions
Divisadero
3.52 avg rating — 11,693 ratings — published 2007 — 78 editions
Running in the Family
3.83 avg rating — 9,564 ratings — published 1982 — 78 editions
Coming Through Slaughter
3.87 avg rating — 6,784 ratings — published 1976 — 64 editions
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
3.95 avg rating — 4,412 ratings — published 1970 — 61 editions
The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems
4.18 avg rating — 2,403 ratings — publ
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Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is one of the world’s foremost writers – his artistry and aesthetic have influenced an entire generation of writers and readers. Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje’s work also encompasses poetry, memoir, and film, and reveals a passion for defying conventional form. His transcendent novel The English Patient, explores the stories of people history fails to reveal by intersecting four diverse lives at the end of World War II. This bestselling novel was later made into an Academy Award-winning film. In 2018 The English Patient was named the best winner of the Booker prize of the last 50 years, by public vote. His new book of poetry, A Year of Last Things (Knopf, March 19, 2024), was called “dazzling” by Publishers Weekly.

Ondaatje himself is an interesting intersection of cultures. Born in Sri Lanka, the former Ceylon, of Indian/Dutch ancestry, he went to school in England, and then moved to Canada. He is now a Canadian citizen. From the memoir of his childhood, Running in the Famil

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