From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Michael Ondaatje (born September 12, 1943), OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet of Colombo Chetty and Burgher origin. He is perhaps best ...

Michael Ondaatje’s novel “The English Patient” won the Golden Man Booker Prize, a special award established to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the prestigious British literary prize, on Sunday ...

Michael Ondaatje, the Booker Prize-winning novelist, has a new volume of poetry, "A Year Of Last Things." And it may reveal much of his wide-ranging life - from his childhood in Sri Lanka during World ...

“Gamini rarely saw himself from the point of view of a stranger. Though most people knew who he was, he felt he was invisible to those around him.” -Michael Ondaatje In this recording, Michael ...

Michael Ondaatje’s “Warlight” was inspired by an idea that became the novel’s first line: “In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.” His books ...

Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient (Bloomsbury), the story of an injured, anonymous English WWII pilot and his Italian nurse, has been named the winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize, awarded to ...

Update, 1:30 p.m. 3/5: The first meeting of Moira’s Seattle Times Book Club was a great success — visit the comments thread below to read our discussion of Michael Ondaatje’s novel, “Warlight.” Here ...

Michael Ondaatje's new novel is full of misdirections - stories within stories. As a reader, at first I wasn't quite sure where I was headed. And Ondaatje told me when he started writing this, he wasn ...