Michael Ondaatje, author portrait
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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.
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

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

The English Patient Wins Best of Man Booker Prize

The one-off award, voted for by the public, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker prize. The shortlist of five novels was selected by a panel of judges from the 51 previous winners of the Man Booker, which honors the best novels written in English and published in Britain or Ireland. “The English Patient

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