Michael Ondaatje
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Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.
Ondaatje speaking at Tulane University, 2010
In the Skin of a Lion
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In the Skin of a Lion is a novel by Canadian–Sri Lankan writer Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 1987 by McClelland and Stewart. The novel fictionalizes the lives of the immigrants who playe
Michael Ondaatje
…Prize, and the Governor General's Award. It was adapted as a motion picture, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and multiple other awards. In the Skin of a Lion (1987), a novel about early immigrants in Toronto, was the winner of the 1988 City of Toronto Book Award, finalist for the 1987 Ritz Paris Hemingway…
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