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Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a
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poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the
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, the
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, the
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, and the Prix Médicis étranger. Ondaatje is also an Officer of the
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, recognizing him as one of Canada's most renowned living authors. Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing ''The Dainty Monsters'', and then in 1970 the critically acclaimed '' The Collected Works of Billy the Kid.'' However, he is more recently recognized for his nationally and internationally successful novel '' The English Patient'' (1992), which was adapted into a
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in 1996. In 2018, Ondaatje won the Golden Man Booker Prize for ''The English Patient''. In addition to his literary writing, Ondaatje has been an important force in "fostering new Canadian writing""Michael Ondaatje." In ''An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English'', edited by Donna Bennett and Russell Brown, 928-30. 3rd ed. Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press, 2010. with two decades commitment to Coach House Press (around 1970–90), and his editorial credits on Canadian literary projects like the journal ''
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'', and the ''Long Poem Anthology'' (1979), among others.


Early life and education

Ondaatje was born in
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,
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, then called
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, in 1943, of Burgher descent ( Dutch and Sinhalese). His parents separated when he was an infant; he then lived with relatives until 1954 when he joined his mother in
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. Before moving to England, he attended S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia in Colombo. While in England, Ondaatje pursued secondary education at Dulwich College. He emigrated to
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,
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, in 1962."(Philip) Michael Ondaatje." In ''Gale Online Encyclopedia''. Detroit: Gale, 2016. ''Literature Resource Center''. Retrieved 30 November 2016. After relocating to Canada, Ondaatje studied at Bishop's College School and
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in
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,
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, for three years. In his final year he attended the
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where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965. In 1967, he received a Master of Arts from
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. While he was working on his undergraduate degree at
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, Ondaatje's met his future mentor, the poet D.G Jones, who praised his poetic ability. After his formal schooling, Ondaatje began teaching English at the
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in
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. In 1971, reluctant to get his PhD, he left his position at Western Ontario and went on to teach English literature at Glendon College,
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.


Work

Ondaatje's work includes fiction, autobiography, poetry and film. He has published 13 books of poetry, and won the
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for ''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). ''
Anil's Ghost ''Anil's Ghost'' is the critically acclaimed fourth novel by Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 2000 by McClelland and Stewart. ''Anil's Ghost'' follows the life of Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan who left to study in Britain and the ...
'' (2000) was the winner of the 2000
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, the Prix Médicis, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the 2001 Irish Times International Fiction Prize and Canada's
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. '' The English Patient'' (1992) won the
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, the Canada Australia Prize, and the
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. It was adapted as a motion picture, which won the
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and multiple other awards.Schillinger, Liesl (14 October 2011)
"Michael Ondaatje's Passage From Ceylon"
''The New York Times''.
''
In the Skin of a Lion ''In the Skin of a Lion'' is a novel by Canadian–Sri Lankan writer Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 1987 by McClelland and Stewart. The novel fictionalizes the lives of the immigrants who played a large role in the building of the c ...
'' (1987), a novel about early immigrants in Toronto, was the winner of the 1988
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, finalist for the 1987 Ritz Paris Hemingway Award for best novel of the year in English, and winner of the first Canada Reads competition in 2002. ''
Coming Through Slaughter ''Coming Through Slaughter'' is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by House of Anansi in 1976. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. The novel is a fictionalized version of the life of the New Orleans jazz pion ...
'' (1976), is a novel set in , circa 1900, loosely based on the lives of jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and photographer
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. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. ''
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'' (1982) is a semi-fictional memoir of his childhood in Ceylon. Ondaatje's novel '' Divisadero'' won the 2007
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. In 2011 Ondaatje worked with Daniel Brooks to create a play based on this novel."How Michael Ondaatje and Daniel Brooks made 'Divisadero' into a play"
Kate Taylor, Toronto — ''The Globe and Mail'', 4 February 2011.
In July 2018, his novel ''Warlight'' was longlisted for the
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.


Adaptations

''The Collected Works of Billy the Kid'', ''Coming Through Slaughter'' and ''Divisadero'' have been adapted for the stage and produced in theatrical productions across North America and Europe. In addition to ''The English Patient'' adaptation, Ondaatje's films include a documentary on fellow poet B.P. Nichol, ''Sons of Captain Poetry'', and ''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, Ondaatje 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 Book Award for best book of the year on the moving image.


Honours

On 11 July 1988, Ondaatje was made an Officer of the
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which was later upgraded to grade of companion in 2016, the highest level of the order. In 2005, he was honoured with Sri Lanka Ratna by the former Sri Lankan President
Chandrika Kumaratunga Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga ( si, චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරතුංග, ta, சந்திரிகா பண்டாரநாயக்க குமாரதுங்க; born 29 Ju ...
. Sri Lanka Ratna is the highest honour given by the Government of Sri Lanka for foreign nationals. In 2008, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. In 2016, a new species of spider, ''Brignolia ondaatjei'', discovered in Sri Lanka, was named after him.


Public stand

In April 2015, Ondaatje was one of several members of PEN American Center who withdrew as literary host when the organization gave its annual Freedom of Expression Courage award to ''
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''. The award came in the wake of the shooting attack on the magazine's Paris offices in January 2015. Ondaatje and several other hosts condemned the attack on the office of ''Charlie Hebdo'', but claimed that due to the magazine's history of anti-Islam content it should not have been honoured.


Personal life

Since the 1960s, Ondaatje has been involved with Toronto's Coach House Books, supporting the independent small press by working as a poetry editor. Ondaatje and his wife
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, a novelist and academic, co-edit '' Brick, A Literary Journal'', with Michael Redhill, Michael Helm, and
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."Michael Ondaatje"
''The Morning News'', by Robert Birnbaum.
In 1988, Ondaatje was made an Officer of the
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(OC) and two years later a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Ondaatje served as a founding member of the board of trustees of the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry from 2000 to 2018. Ondaatje has two children with his first wife, Canadian artist Kim Ondaatje. His brother Sir Christopher Ondaatje is a philanthropist, businessman and author. Ondaatje's nephew David Ondaatje is a film director and screenwriter, who made the 2009 film '' The Lodger''.


Books


Novels

* 1976: ''
Coming Through Slaughter ''Coming Through Slaughter'' is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by House of Anansi in 1976. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award. The novel is a fictionalized version of the life of the New Orleans jazz pion ...
'' (also see "Other" section, 1980, below), Toronto: Anansi, ; New York: W. W. Norton, 1977Web page title
"Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943– )"
at the Poetry Foundation website. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
* 1987: ''
In the Skin of a Lion ''In the Skin of a Lion'' is a novel by Canadian–Sri Lankan writer Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 1987 by McClelland and Stewart. The novel fictionalizes the lives of the immigrants who played a large role in the building of the c ...
'', New York: Knopf, , * 1992: '' The English Patient'', New York: Knopf, , * 2000: ''
Anil's Ghost ''Anil's Ghost'' is the critically acclaimed fourth novel by Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 2000 by McClelland and Stewart. ''Anil's Ghost'' follows the life of Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan who left to study in Britain and the ...
'', New York: Knopf, * 2007: '' Divisadero'', * 2011: '' The Cat's Table'', , * 2018: '' Warlight'', ,


Poetry collections

* 1962: Social Call, The Love Story, In Search of Happiness, all featured in The Mitre: Lennoxville: Bishop University Press * 1967: ''The Dainty Monsters'', Toronto: Coach House Press McCrum, Robert (28 August 2011)
"Michael Ondaatje: The divided man"
''The Guardian''.
* 1969: ''The Man with Seven Toes'', Toronto: Coach House Press * 1970: '' The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems'' (also see "Other" section, 1973, below), Toronto: Anansi ; New York: Berkeley, 1975 * 1973: ''Rat Jelly'', Toronto: Coach House Press * 1978: ''Elimination Dance/La danse eliminatoire'', Ilderton: Nairn Coldstream; revised edition, Brick, 1980 * 1979: ''There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, 1963–1978'', New York: W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 1979 , ** published as ''Rat Jelly, and Other Poems, 1963–1978'', London, United Kingdom: Marion Boyars, 1980 * 1984: ''Secular Love'', Toronto: Coach House Press, , ; New York: W. W. Norton, 1985 * 1986: ''All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems'' (broadside), Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Woodland Pattern * 1986: ''Two Poems, Woodland Pattern'', Milwaukee, Wisconsin * 1989: '' The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems'', London, United Kingdom: Pan; New York: Knopf, 1991 * 1998: ''Handwriting'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; New York: Knopf, 1999 * 2006: ''The Story'', Toronto: House of Anansi,


Editor

* 1971: ''The Broken Ark'', animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revised as ''A Book of Beasts'', 1979 * 1977: ''Personal Fictions: Stories by Munro, Wiebe, Thomas, and Blaise'', Toronto: Oxford University Press * 1979: ''A Book of Beasts'', animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revision of ''The Broken Ark'', 1971 * 1979: ''The Long Poem Anthology'', Toronto: Coach House * 1989: With Russell Banks and David Young, ''Brushes with Greatness: An Anthology of Chance Encounters with Greatness'', Toronto: Coach House, 1989 * 1989: Edited with
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, ''The Brick Anthology'', illustrated by David Bolduc, Toronto: Coach House Press * 1990: ''From Ink Lake: An Anthology of Canadian Short Stories''; New York: Viking * 1990: ''The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories''; London, United Kingdom: Faber * 2000: Edited with Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding and Linda Spalding, ''Lost Classics'', Toronto: Knopf Canada ; New York: Anchor, 2001 * 2002: Edited and wrote introduction, '' Mavis Gallant, Paris Stories'', New York: New York Review Books


Other

* 1966: '' The Offering'' - co-producer and co-screenwriter * 1970: ''Leonard Cohen'' (literary criticism), Toronto: McClelland & Stewart * 1973: ''The Collected Works of Billy the Kid'' (play; based on his poetry; see "Poetry" section, 1970, above), produced in
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; produced in New York, 1974; produced in London, England, 1984 * 1979: ''Claude Glass'' (literary criticism), Toronto: Coach House Press * 1980: ''Coming through Slaughter'' (play based on his novel; see "Novels" section, 1976, above), first produced in Toronto * 1982: ''
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'', memoir, New York: W. W. Norton, , * 1982: ''Tin Roof'', British Columbia, Canada: Island, , * 1987: ''In the Skin of a Lion'' (based on his novel), New York: Knopf * 1994: Edited with B. P. Nichol and George Bowering, ''An H in the Heart: A Reader'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart * 1996: Wrote introduction, Anthony Minghella, adaptor, ''The English Patient: A Screenplay'', New York: Hyperion Miramax * 2002: ''The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film'', New York: Knopf, * 2002: ''Films by Michael Ondaatje''Films by Michael Ondaatje
* 2004: ''Vintage Ondaatje'',


See also

* Ondaatje Letters * Sri Lankan Chetties * Christopher Ondaatje * Kim Ondaatje * Pearl Ondaatje * List of Bishop's College School alumni


Notes


Further reading

* ''Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing''. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. * Barbour, Douglas. ''Michael Ondaatje.'' New York: Twayne, 1993. * Jewinski, Ed. ''Michael Ondaatje: Express Yourself Beautifully''. Toronto: ECW, 1994. * Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven (斯蒂文·托托西演). 文学研究的合法化: 一种新实用主义 ·整体化和经主 义文学与文化研究方法 (Legitimizing the Study of Literature: A New Pragmatism and the Systemic Approach to Literature and Culture). Trans. Ma Jui-ch'i (马瑞琪翻). Beijing: Peking University Press, 1997. 111–34. * Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. "Cultures, Peripheralities, and Comparative Literature." in Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek (ed.). ''Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application''. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. 150–65.


External links


On Michael Ondaatje's late style, in the Literary Review of Canada, by
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. * Jane Henderson (2 May 2016).
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. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved 22 July 2016. * *
"I came from a tussle with the sea": An interview with Michael Ondaatje
in '' Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' (24.2)
Full text of ''The Dainty Monsters''"Adventures in the Skin Trade"
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