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Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri
Lanka in 1943. His father, Mervyn Ondaatje, was a tea and rubber plantation
superintendent. However, he was an alcoholic, which led to Michael Ondaatje’s
parents breaking up. Michael’s mother, Doris Gratiaen, took him to England in
1954. He never saw his father again. Michael attended Dulwich College, but
moved on to Canada for his higher education. He was awarded his BA from the
University of Toronto, and his MA from Queen’s University, Ontario, in 1967.
Since 1967, Michael Ondaatje has worked as an academic.
Michael Ondaatje has published several works of poetry: “The Dainty
Monsters” (1967), “The Man with Seven Toes” (1969), “The
Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems” (1970), “The Broken
Ark: A Book of Beasts” (1971), “Rat Jelly”
(1973), “Elimination
Dance” (1978), “Claude Glass” (1979), “There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m
Learning To Do: Poems 1963-1978” (1979), “Tin Roof” (1982), “Secular
Love” (1984), “Two Poems” (1986), and “The
Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems” (1991). However, it is as a novelist that
Michael Ondaatje is most famous. His first novel, “Coming
Through Slaughter” was published in 1976, followed by “Running in
the Family” in 1987, and “In the
Skin of the Lion” (1987). Michael’s fourth novel is his most famous: “The
English Patient” (1992), which won the Booker Prize and the Canadian
Governor General’s Award. Anthony Minghella’s movie of “The
English Patient” was just as successful, as it won 9 Academy Awards.
Michael Ondaatje’s fifth novel, “Anil’s Ghost”, was published in 2000, and won
the Gille Prize, the Prix Medicis, and the Canadian Governor General’s Award. “Divisadero” is the
title of Michael Ondaatje’s latest novel. Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto
with his wife, the novelist Linda Spalding, where they edit the literary
magazine “Brick”.
Michael Ondaatje interviewed by Willem Dafoe – one of the stars of the
movie talks to Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje’s Cubist
War – Dave Weich talks to Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje meets
his translators – the author in conversation with his Spanish translators
BBC
Four Audio Interviews: Michael Ondaatje
Furnishing
the pictures: Arthur S. Goss, Michael Ondaatje and the Imag(in)ing of Toronto
– Denis Duffy’s essay
‘Powerful
Joy’: Michael Ondaatje’s “The English Patient” and Walter Benjamin’s
allegorical way of seeing – Marlene Goldman’s essay
“The English Patient”: Critics, audiences, and the quality of fidelity – David L. Kranz’s essay
“Call
me by my name”: Personal Identity and Possession in “The English Patient” –
Sharyn Emery’s essay
Sweeping
the Sands: Geographies of Desire in “The English Patient” – Jacqui
Sadashige’s essay
A
firmament in the midst of the waters: Dimensions of Love in “The English
Patient” – Douglas Sternberg’s essay
Historical
Obliviousness in Michael Ondaatje’s “In the Skin of a Lion” – Graciela Moreira
Slepoy’s essay
The
Struggle of Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Michael Ondaatje’s “In the
Skin of a Lion” – Gilbert McInnis’ essay
Memory and
Place in Michael Ondaatje’s “Running in the Family” – Milica Zivkovic’s
essay in pdf format
Memory, Identity and Empire
in Michael Ondaatje’s “Running in the Family” – Paul Jay’s paper
Matthews, S. Leigh
""The Bright Bone of a Dream": Drama, Performativity, Ritual,
and Community in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family"
Biography - Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2000, pp. 352-371
University of Hawai'i Press
Sensenig-Dabbous, Eugene "Will the Real Almasy
Please Stand Up! Transporting Central European Orientalism via The English
Patient"
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East - Volume 24,
Number 2, 2004, pp. 163-180
Duke University Press
Jollimore,
Troy A. 1971- "Beauty, Evil, and The English Patient"
Philosophy and Literature - Volume 28, Number 1, April 2004, pp. 23-40
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Seeing
Everything in a Different Light: Vision and Revelation in Michael Ondaatje’s
“The English Patient” – Kristina Kyser’s essay
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