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
The English Patient
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The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian campaign of World War II: an un
Michael Ondaatje
…began with his poetry: in 1967 he published The Dainty Monsters, and in 1970 the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. His novel The English Patient (1992), adapted as a film in 1996, received the Booker Prize in 1992. It later won the Golden Man Booker Prize as the best of the first 51 Booker Prize…
First edition cover
Villa San Girolamo in Fiesole (Florence)
Triumph 3HW 350cc motorcycle used by Kip in the novel