Michael Ondaatje

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.

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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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Books by Michael Ondaatje

Coming Through Slaughter
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Running in the Family
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Warlight
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In the Skin of a Lion
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The English Patient
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Anil's Ghost
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Divisadero
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The Cat's Table
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A Year of Last Things
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Other Works by Michael Ondaatje

Rat Jelly and Other Poems, 1963-78
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The Cinnamon Peeler
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Handwriting
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The Conversations
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The Story
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