Michael Ondaatje, author portrait
© Teri Pengilley

Michael Ondaatje

MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and became a major motion picture that won nine Academy Awards, including Best Film; Anil's Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.
The Distance of a Shout
A Year of Last Things
Warlight
The Cat's Table
Divisadero
Vintage Ondaatje
The Conversations
Anil's Ghost
Handwriting
The Cinnamon Peeler
In the Skin of a Lion
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Coming Through Slaughter
The English Patient
Running in the Family

Books

The Distance of a Shout
A Year of Last Things
Warlight
The Cat's Table
Divisadero
Vintage Ondaatje
The Conversations
Anil's Ghost
Handwriting
The Cinnamon Peeler
In the Skin of a Lion
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Coming Through Slaughter
The English Patient
Running in the Family

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