Born in Sri Lanka, author Michael Ondaatje moved to England as a child and then to Canada where he still lives today. A playwright, novelist, poet and author of non-fiction he began writing with the memoir Running in the Family and published several collections of poetry before turning to fiction.
He is best-known for his 1992 novel The English Patient which was the joint winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name. . In 2018, The English Patient won a public poll to award the Golden Man Booker Prize – celebrating the best Booker Prize winning novel of the last fifty years. His other works include Anil’s Ghost (a novel of late twentieth-century Sri Lanka), The Cat’s Table and the 2018 novel Warlight.
Winner of the Golden Man Booker, The English Patient is an emotionally devastating reflection on love, betrayal and the shifting sands of memory. Centred on a nurse and her wounded charges in an Italian villa at the close of World War II, Ondaatje’s lyrical masterpiece has attained a literary significance that few modern novels can match.
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