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Michael Ondaatje ~ Best-selling Author of The English Patient and Divisadero
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 memoir, poetry, and
film, and reveals a passion for defying conventional form. In his transcendent
novel The
English Patient—later made into the Academy Award-winning
film—he explores the stories of people history fails to reveal,
intersecting four diverse lives at the end of World War II.
Ondaatje is himself 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 Family, to his Governor-General’s Award-winning
book of poetry, There’s a Trick With a Knife I’m Learning
To Do, to his classic novel, The
English Patient, Michael Ondaatje casts a spell over his readers.
And having won the British Commonwealth’s highest honor—the
Booker
Prize—he has taken his rightful place as a contemporary
literary treasure.
He is the author of four collections of poetry including The
Cinnamon Peeler and most recently, Handwriting.
His works of fiction include Anil's
Ghost, The
English Patient, In
the Skin of a Lion, Coming
Through Slaughter, and The
Collected Works of Billy the Kid.
In 2000, Michael Ondaatje was awarded the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the Prix Medicis, the Governor General’s Award, and the Giller Prize for his novel Anil's Ghost. Michael Ondaatje’s most recent nonfiction work is The Conversations: Walter Murch & the Art of Editing Film. His latest novel is entitled Divisadero (2007).
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