Michael Ondaatje
Canadian novelist and poet (born 1943)
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- Born
- 1943-09-12
- Works
- 167
Top works
- The Distance of a Shout: Selected Poems
- A Year of Last Things
- English Patient
- Coming Through Slaughter
- EL FANTASMA D'ANIL
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Directing · Colombo, Ceylon. [now Sri Lanka]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Michael Ondaatje (born September 12, 1943), OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet of Colombo Chetty and Burgher origin. He is perhaps best known for his Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient, which was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Ondaatje, licensed under…
Known for
- Sjöwall & Wahlöö - Berättelsen om ett brott — Self2016
- Al Purdy Was Here — (voice)2015
- Bruce Cockburn Pacing the Cage2013
- Paris Stories: The Writing of Mavis Gallant — Himself2006
- Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing — Self2004
- Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet — Himself1999
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Philip Michael Ondaatje (/ɒnˈdɑːtʃiː/; born 12 September 1943) is a Ceylon-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.
Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry: in 1967 he published The Dainty Monsters, and in 1970 the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. His novel The English Patient (1992), adapted as a film in 1996, received the Booker Prize in 1992. It later won the Golden Man Booker Prize as the best of the first 51 Booker Prize winners.
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1943 births20th-century Canadian male writers20th-century Canadian novelists20th-century Canadian poets21st-century Canadian male writers21st-century Canadian novelists21st-century Canadian poetsAcademic staff of Glendon CollegeAcademic staff of the University of Western OntarioAcademic staff of York UniversityAmazon.ca First Novel Award winners