Michael Ondaatje - Bibliography, Further reading

Poet, novelist, and editor, born in Colombo, W Sri Lanka. He moved to Canada in 1962, studied at Bishop's University in Quebec, the University of Toronto, and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, then became a university lecturer. Among his first books of poetry is Rat Jelly (1973). The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970), a factual and fictional account of the notorious outlaw, won a Governor-General's Award, as did a later book of poems, There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do (1979). Running in the Family (1982) tells of the life of his family in colonial Ceylon, and his novel The English Patient was co-winner of the Booker Prize in 1992 (filmed 1996, Oscar). Handwriting: Poems appeared in 1999, and the novel Anil's Ghost in 2000. His work characteristically blends the factual and imaginary, has a cinematic quality, and depends on an imagery of exoticism.

Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC (born 12 September 1943) is a Canadian/Sri Lankan novelist and poet perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film, The English Patient.

His style of fiction introduced in Coming Through Slaughter (1976) and mastered in The English Patient (1992) is non-linear. He has published thirteen books of poetry, and won the Governor General's Award for two books of poetry: 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).

His three films include a documentary on fellow poet bp nichol, Sons of Captain Poetry, and also The Clinton Special: A Film About The Farm Show, which chronicles a collaborative theatre experience led in 1971 by Paul Thompson of Theatre Passe Muraille. In 2002 he published a non-fiction book, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, which won special recognition at the 2003 American Cinema Editors Awards, as well as a Kraszna-Krausz Special Commendation Award for best book of the year on the moving image.

He is also known for four other works of fiction:

Anil's Ghost—winner of the 2000 Giller Prize, the Prix Médicis, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the 2001 Irish Times International Fiction Prize and Canada's Governor General's Award. The English Patient—winner of the Booker Prize, the Canada Australia Prize, and the Canadian Governor General's Award and later made into a motion picture, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Bibliography

The Dainty Monsters - 1967 Leonard Cohen - 1969 (essay) The Man with Seven Toes - 1969 The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - 1970 The Broken Ark: A Book of Beasts - 1971 (editor) Rat Jelly - 1973 Coming Through Slaughter - 1976 Personal Fictions: Stories by Munro, Wiebe, Thomas, and Blaise - 1977 (editor) Elimination Dance - 1978 There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do - 1979 The Long Poem Anthology - 1979 (editor) Tin Roof - 1982 Claude Glass - 1982 Running in the Family - 1982 Secular Love - 1984 In the Skin of a Lion - 1987 From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories - 1990 (editor) The Brick Reader - 1991 (edited with Linda Spalding) The Cinnamon Peeler - 1991 The English Patient - 1992 Handwriting - 1998 Lost Classics - 2000 (edited with Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding and Linda Spalding) Anil's Ghost - 2000 The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film - 2002 The Story - 2005

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