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Philip Michael Ondaatje CC FRSL (/ ɒ n ˈ d ɑː tʃ iː /; 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]
Aug 6, 2024 · Michael Ondaatje (born September 12, 1943, Colombo, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet whose musical prose and poetry are created from a blend of myth, history, jazz, memoirs, and other forms.
Michael Ondaatje has 132 books on Goodreads with 609565 ratings. Michael Ondaatje’s most popular book is The English Patient.
Aug 8, 2013 · A five time winner of the Governor General’s Award and an Officer of the Order of Canada, Michael Ondaatje, along with Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro, is one of Canada’s most celebrated living authors.
Ondaatje’s fame as a novelist skyrocketed after his best-selling novel The English Patient (1992) was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. Set in an Italian villa at the end of World War II, the novel foregrounds Ondaatje’s linguistic prowess.
Michael Ondaatje. Born. in Colombo, Sri Lanka. September 12, 1943. Genre. Fiction, Historical Fiction, Poetry. edit data. He was born to a Burgher family of Dutch-Tamil-Sinhalese-Portuguese origin. He moved to England with his mother in 1954.
Mar 16, 2024 · SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Michael Ondaatje, the Booker Prize-winning novelist, has a new volume of poetry, "A Year Of Last Things." And it may reveal much of his wide-ranging life - from his childhood...
Mar 20, 2024 · Recently I had a few conversations with Michael Ondaatje about his first collection of poetry in 25 years. With capacious introspection as well as intimate documentary recall, the poems and prose in A Year of Last Things, make for a symphonic treatise on memory itself.
Sep 12, 2018 · Sept. 12, 2019 marks the 76th birthday of one of Canada's most celebrated novelists, Michael Ondaatje. CBC Books has curated a list of 76 interesting facts about the writer behind books like...
Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a non-fiction book on film and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Booker in 2018; Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis.
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