Michael Ondaatje 
Author

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Michael Ondaatje 
Author

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* 12.09.1943, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Réside à: Toronto, Canada

Michael Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) on 12 September 1943. The poet and novelist with Dutch-Tamil-Sinhalese roots moved with his mother in 1954 to England, and later in 1962 to Canada, where he became a Canadian citizen and has lived ever since.

He was educated at the University of Toronto and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. From 1971 till 1983 he teached at York University in Toronto, and afterwards at Glendon College in Toronto.

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He received the Order of Canada in 1988.

He is perhaps best known for his Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient, which was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film (9 Oscars). Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje's work also includes autobiography, poetry and film.

He has published thirteen books of poetry, and won the Canadian Governor General's Award for two of them: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970) and There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems 1973-1978 (1979). Other important collections of poetry are The Cinnamon Peeler. Selected Poems (1989) and Handwriting (1998).

Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.

Publications
  • The Dainty Monsters

    [poetry]

    Toronto: Coach House Press, 1967

  • The Man with Seven Toes

    [poetry]

    Toronto: Coach House Press, 1969

  • The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems

    [poetry]

    Toronto: Anansi, 1970

  • Leonard Cohen

    [literary criticism]

    Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1970

  • The Broken Ark

    Animal verse/A Book of Beasts

    with drawings by Tony Urquhart

    Toronto: Oberon Press, 1971

  • Rat Jelly

    [poetry]

    Toronto: Coach House Press, 1973

  • Coming Through Slaughter

    [prose]

    Toronto: Anansi, 1976

  • Elimination Dance

    [poetry]

    Ilderton: Nairn Coldstream, 1978

  • Claude Glass

    [literary criticism]

    Toronto: Coach House Press, 1979

  • There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do

    Poems 1963-1978

    Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979

  • The Long Poem Anthology

    Edit. by Michael Ondaatje

    Toronto: Coach House Press, 1979

  • Tin Roof

    [poetry]

    Lantzville: Island Writing Series, 1982

  • Running in the Family

    [memoir]

    Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982

  • Secular Love

    [poetry]

    Toronto: Coach House Press, 1984

  • All along the Mazinaw

    Two Poems

    Milwaukie, Wisconsin: Woodland Pattern, 1986

  • In the Skin of a Lion

    [novel]

    Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987

  • The Cinnamon Peeler

    Selected Poems

    Picador, 1989

  • Brushes with Greatness

    An Anthology of Chance Encounters with Celebrities

    Edit. by Michael Ondaatje together with Russell Banks and David Young

    Toronto: Coach House Press, 1989

  • From Ink Lake

    Canadian Stories

    [anthologie]

    Toronto: Knopf, 1990

  • The Brick Anthology

    A Reader

    with Linda Spalding

    Toronto: Coach House Press, 1991

  • The English Patient

    [novel]

    New York: Knopf, 1992

  • An H in the Heart

    A Reader

    Edit. by Michael Ondaatje with B. P. Nichol and George Bowering

    Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994

  • Handwriting

    [poetry]

    Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1998

  • Anil’s Ghost

    [novel]

    Toronto: McCelland and Stewart, 2000

  • Lost Classics

    Edit. by Michael Ondaatje together with Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding & Linda Spalding

    Bloomsbury, 2001

  • The Story

    [poetry]

    illustrated by David Bolduc

    Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2006

  • Divisadero

    [novel]

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007

  • The Cat's Table

    [novel]

    Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2011

  • Warlight

    [novel]

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018

Prix
  • 1965 Ralph Gustafson Award

  • 1966 E. J. Pratt Medal

  • 1966 Epstein Award

  • 1967 President's Medal (University of Western Ontario)

  • 1971 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (Canada)
    for The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

  • 1980 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (Canada)
    There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do

  • 1988 Order of Canada

  • 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction
    The English Patient

  • 1992 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (Canada)
    for The English Patient

  • 2000 Giller Prize (Canada)
    for Anil's Ghost

  • 2000 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (Canada)
    for Anil's Ghost

  • 2000 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
    for Anil's Ghost

  • 2000 Prix Médicis (France)
    for Anil's Ghost

  • 2007 Man Booker International Prize (shortlist)

  • 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize (shortlist)
    Divisadero

  • 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Caribbean and Canada Region, Best Book) (shortlist)
    Divisadero

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