Ondaatje

/ ɒnˈdɑːtʃe /

noun

1. Michael. born 1943, Sri Lankan-born Canadian writer: his works include the poetry collection There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do (1979), the Booker-prizewinning novel The English Patient (1992, filmed 1997), Anil's Ghost (2000), and Divisadero (2007)

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The place filled with cowboy hats and books — “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a Georgia O’Keeffe biography, a dictionary, “The Western Buckle: History, Art, Culture, Function,” Michael Ondaatje’s “Divisadero.”

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On set in Toronto, they shared a cast tent, where Davis was constantly reading — Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The Bad Girl” one week and Michael Ondaatje’s “Divisadero” the next.

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It is the fatal disease of empire, captured in Graham Greene's novel "The Quiet American" and Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient."

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In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje Patrick Lewis first meets the radio actress Clara Dickens in her dressing room.

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Ondaatje explores the gorgeous geography and brutal history of his native Sri Lanka in the story of a young woman who returns after leaving the island as a child.

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