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Michael Ondaatje

By Mark Flanagan, About.com

Michael Ondaatje Biography:
Michael Ondaatje is the author of three previous novels, a memoir and eleven books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize. Born in Sri Lanka, he moved to Canada in 1962 and now lives in Toronto.
In Anil's Ghost, his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. ~ from Michael Ondaatje's publisher
Dates:
(1959-)
Nationality:
Sri Lankan
Genre(s):
Novels; Stories; Essays; Poetry
Notable Work:
The English Patient, 1992
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