Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a non-fiction 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.

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