‘It takes me a long time to get over the writing and editing of a book.’
Michael Ondaatje
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Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a non-fiction book on film and several books of poetry
The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Booker in 2018; Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Ondaatje was also shortlisted, for his entire body of work, for The Man Booker International Prize 2007. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.
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The English Patient
Winner of The Booker Prize 1992
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- Bloomsbury
Set in 1945, Michael Ondaatje’s brilliant and moving historical fiction has been translated into 40 languages and turned into an Oscar-winning film
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A young man journeys back in time - through reality, memory, and imagination - to understand his unusual past
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