Michael Ondaatje Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Ceylon, in 1943 and emigrated to England in 1952. He moved to Canada in 1962, where he remained as a resident of Toronto. He began writing as a poet but soon became known as a novelist ("The English Patient," is perhaps his best-known work.) He received a BA from the University of Toronto and an MA from Queen's University. Handwriting (1999); The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems (1991); Secular Love (1984); There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, 1963-1978 (1978), which won the Governor General's award; Elimination Dance (1976); Rat Jelly (1973); The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970), which won the Governor General's award; The Man with Seven Toes (1969); and Dainty Monsters (1967). He is also the author of a memoir, Running in the Family (1982), and four novels: Anil's Ghost (Alfred A. Knopf, 2000); The English Patient (1992), which shared the Booker Prize and was made into an Academy Award-winning motion picture; In The Skin of a Lion (1987); and Coming Through Slaughter (1976). He has edited From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories (1990-91), The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories (1990), The Long Poem Anthology (1979), Personal Fictions: Stories by Munro, Wiebe, Thomas, and Blaise (1977), and The Broken Ark: A Book of Beasts (1971). He has taught at Glendon College, York University, since 1971. He and his wife, novelist Linda Spalding edit the literary journal "Brick." |
 
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