Ondaatje

British  

/ 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 new release also will include dozens of essays, with novelist Michael Ondaatje, critic Greil Marcus and former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo among the contributors.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2023

He is the second second Sri Lankan-born author to win the Booker Prize following Michael Ondaatje in 1992, for The English Patient.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2022

But somewhere on such a list would be for fiction Michael Ondaatje and Colm Toibin and for poetry the Korean poet Kim Hyesoon and the Chilean poet Raul Zurita.

From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2020

The Booker prize has been split twice before: in 1974, by Nadine Gordimer and Stanley Middleton, and in 1992, by Michael Ondaatje and Barry Unsworth.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2019

Finally they were besieged in the town hall by a numerous gathering of the "free corps" headed by Ondaatje, and were compelled to accede to the people's demands.

From History of Holland by Edmundson, George