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{{Short description|Canadian novelist and poet (born 1943)}}
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| name             = Michael Ondaatje
| honorific_suffix = [[Companion of the Order of Canada|CC]], [[FRSL]]
| image            = Michael Ondaatje at Tulane 2010.jpg
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| caption          = Ondaatje speaking at [[Tulane University]], 2010
| birth_name       = Philip Michael Ondaatje
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1943|9|12|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Colombo]], [[Western Province, Sri Lanka|Western Province]], [[British Ceylon]] <br/> (now [[Sri Lanka]])
| occupation       = Author
| language         = English
| education        = [[Dulwich College]]
| alma_mater       = [[University of Toronto]]<br />[[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]]<br />[[Bishop's University]]
| notableworks     = * ''[[The English Patient]]''
* ''[[Running in the Family (memoir)|Running in the Family]]''
* ''[[Divisadero (novel)|Divisadero]]''
* ''[[In the Skin of a Lion]]''
* ''[[Coming Through Slaughter]]''
* ''[[Warlight]]''
| spouse           = [[Linda Spalding]]
| relatives        = [[Christopher Ondaatje]] (brother)
| awards           = [[Governor General's Awards|Governor General's Award – Poetry]]<br />[[Booker Prize]]<br />[[Scotiabank Giller Prize|Giller Prize]]<br />[[Prix Médicis|Prix Médicis étranger]]<br />[[Order of Canada]]<br />[[St. Louis Literary Award]]
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'''Philip Michael Ondaatje''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|FRSL|OA}}({{IPAc-en|ɒ|n|ˈ|d|ɑː|tʃ|iː}}; born 12 September 1943) is a [[Sri Lanka]]-born [[Canadians|Canadian]] poet, fiction writer and essayist.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The compact reader|last=Aaron|first=Jane|publisher=Macmillan Education|year=2016|page=63}}</ref>

Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry: in 1967 he published ''The Dainty Monsters'', and in 1970 the critically acclaimed ''[[The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems|The Collected Works of Billy the Kid]].''<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Thesen |first=Sharon |title=Michael Ondaatje |newspaper=The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/michael-ondaatje/ |access-date=30 November 2016}}</ref> His novel ''[[The English Patient]]'' (1992), adapted as a [[The English Patient (film)|film]] in 1996,<ref name=":0" /> received the Booker Prize in 1992. It later won the [[Booker Prize#Special awards|Golden Man Booker Prize]] as the best of the first 51 Booker Prize winners.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/books/michael-ondaatje-s-the-english-patient-wins-prestigious-golden-man-booker-prize-1.4738593| title = Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient wins prestigious Golden Man Booker Prize {{!}} CBC Books}}</ref>

Ondaatje has been "fostering new Canadian writing"<ref name=":2">"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.</ref> with two decades' commitment to [[Coach house press|Coach House Press]] (ca. 1970–1990). His editorial credits include the journal ''[[Brick (magazine)|Brick]]'', and the ''Long Poem Anthology'' (1979), among others.<ref name=":2" />

==Early life and education==

Ondaatje was born in [[Colombo]], [[Sri Lanka]], in 1943, to Major Mervyn Ondaatje and Doris Gratiaen of [[Tamils|Tamil]] and [[Dutch Burghers|Burgher]] descent ([[Dutch people|Dutch]] and [[Sinhalese people|Sinhalese]]).<ref name=":2" /><ref name="Zepetnek2005">{{cite book|author=Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek|title=Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n8OlcZ55iRcC&pg=PA6|date=January 2005|publisher=[[Purdue University Press]]|isbn=978-1-55753-378-4|page=6}}</ref> His parents later separated. In 1954, he re-joined his mother in [[England]].<ref name=":2" /> where he attended [[Dulwich College]]. 

He emigrated to [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], in 1962,<ref name=":1">"(Philip) Michael Ondaatje." In ''Gale Online Encyclopedia''. Detroit: Gale, 2016. ''Literature Resource Center''. Retrieved 30 November 2016.</ref> and studied at  [[Bishop's College School]] and [[Bishop's University]] in [[Lennoxville]], [[Quebec]], for three years.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /> He attended the [[University of Toronto]] receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965,<ref name=":2" /> followed by a Master of Arts from [[Queen's University, Kingston|Queen's University at Kingston]].<ref name=":0" />

The poet [[D. G. Jones]] noted his poetic ability.<ref name=":2" />

Ondaatje began teaching English at the [[University of Western Ontario]] in [[London, Ontario]].<ref name=":1" /> In 1971, he taught English literature at [[Glendon College]], [[York University]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

==Work==

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Ondaatje has published 13 books of poetry, and won the [[Governor General's Award]] 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).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reporter |first=Vit Wagner Staff |date=2007-11-28 |title=Ondaatje wins 5th Governor General's award |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/ondaatje-wins-5th-governor-generals-award/article_22357a41-d7a6-5f63-a483-964711dbc69b.html |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=Toronto Star |language=en}}</ref> [[Anil's Ghost]] (2000) was the winner of the 2000 [[Giller Prize]], the [[Prix Médicis]], the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the 2001 [[Irish Times International Fiction Prize]] and Canada's [[Governor General's Award for English-language fiction|Governor General's Award]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje {{!}} Penguin Random House Canada |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/124583/anils-ghost-by-michael-ondaatje/9780676973617 |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=www.penguinrandomhouse.ca |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Irish Times International Fiction Prize {{!}} Awards and Honors {{!}} LibraryThing |url=https://www.librarything.com/award/861/Irish-Times-International-Fiction-Prize |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=LibraryThing.com |language=en}}</ref>

''[[The English Patient]]'' (1992) won the [[Booker Prize]], the [[Canada Australia Prize]], and the [[Governor General's Award for English-language fiction|Governor General's Award]]. It was adapted as a motion picture, which won the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]] and multiple other awards.<ref name=nyt>Schillinger, Liesl (14 October 2011), [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/the-cats-table-by-michael-ondaatje-book-review.html "Michael Ondaatje's Passage From Ceylon"]. ''The New York Times''.</ref>

''[[In the Skin of a Lion]]'' (1987), a novel about early immigrants in Toronto, was the winner of the 1988 [[City of Toronto Book Award]], 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]]'' (1976), is a novel set in [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], circa 1900, loosely based on the lives of jazz pioneer [[Buddy Bolden]] and photographer [[E. J. Bellocq]]. It was the winner of the 1976 [[Books in Canada First Novel Award]]. ''[[Running in the Family (Memoir)|Running in the Family]]'' (1982) is a childhood memoir.

Ondaatje's novel ''[[Divisadero (novel)|Divisadero]]'' won the 2007 [[Governor General's Award for English-language fiction|Governor General's Award]]. In 2011 Ondaatje worked with [[Daniel Brooks]] to create a play based on this novel.<ref name=globe>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/how-michael-ondaatje-and-daniel-brooks-made-divisadero-into-a-play/article564980/ "How Michael Ondaatje and Daniel Brooks made 'Divisadero' into a play"]. Kate Taylor, Toronto — ''The Globe and Mail'', 4 February 2011.</ref>

In 2018, his novel ''Warlight'' was longlisted for the [[Booker Prize]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2018/jul/24/man-booker-prize-2018-longlist-in-pictures |title= Man Booker prize 2018 longlist – in pictures|date=23 July 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=24 July 2018| language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

==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 [[#Work|''The English Patient'']] adaptation, Ondaatje's films include a documentary on 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Ondaatje {{!}} Writer, Director, Actor |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648546/ |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2002, Ondaatje published a non-fiction book, ''[[The Conversations|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.<ref name="tmn" />

==Honours==

In 1988, Ondaatje was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] which was later upgraded to grade of [[List of Companions of the Order of Canada|Companion]] in 2016, the highest level of the order<ref>[http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=3263&t=12&ln=Ondaatje "Order of Canada: Michael Ondaatje, O.C., M.A."], [[Governor General of Canada]] website.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Governor General Announces 100 New Appointments to the Order of Canada as Canada Turns 150|url=https://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=16670&lan=eng|website=The Governor General of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston|access-date=31 December 2016}}</ref> and two years later a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Membership |url=https://www.artsandletters.org/membership |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=American Academy of Arts and Letters |language=en}}</ref>

In 2005, he received [[Sri Lankan honours system|Sri Lanka Ratna]], the highest honour given by the Government of Sri Lanka for foreign nationals.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Honors Gazette Notification |url=http://www.priu.gov.lk/news_update/Current_Affairs/ca200511/National_Honours_Gazette_Notification.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724105414/http://www.priu.gov.lk/news_update/Current_Affairs/ca200511/National_Honours_Gazette_Notification.pdf |archive-date=24 July 2010 |access-date=21 October 2024 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

In 2008, he received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=2008 |title=2008 Summit Highlights Photo | url= https://achievement.org/summit/2008/|quote= Poet and Hawaii resident W.S. Merwin meets novelist Michael Ondaatje at the International Achievement Summit.}}</ref> He was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]] in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-01 |title=Ondaatje, Michael |url=https://rsliterature.org/fellows/michael-ondaatje/,%20https://rsliterature.org/fellows/michael-ondaatje/ |access-date=2025-06-30 |website=Royal Society of Literature |language=en-GB}}</ref>

In 2016, a new species of spider, ''Brignolia ondaatjei'', discovered in Sri Lanka, was named after him.<ref>Selvadurai, Shyam (10 August 2016), [http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/08/new-spider-species-named-for-michael-ondaatje-shyam-selvadurai.html "New spider species named for Michael Ondaatje"]. ''CBC Books''.</ref>

==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 ''[[Charlie Hebdo]]''. The award came in the wake of the [[Charlie Hebdo shooting|shooting attack]] on the magazine's Paris offices in January 2015.<ref>Schuessler, Jennifer (26 April 2015), [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/nyregion/six-pen-members-decline-gala-after-award-for-charlie-hebdo.html "Six PEN Members Decline Gala After Award for Charlie Hebdo"], ''The New York Times''. Retrieved 7 May 2015.</ref> Ondaatje, along with 60 other writers, signed a letter to PEN expressing concern that the award valorized "selectively offensive material: material that intensifies the anti-Islamic, anti-Maghreb, anti-Arab sentiments already prevalent in the Western world."<ref>{{Cite web |last=kanopi_admin |date=2015-05-05 |title=PEN Receives Letter from Members About Charlie Hebdo Award |url=https://pen.org/pen-receives-letter-from-members-about-charlie-hebdo-award/ |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=PEN America |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Personal life==

Since the 1960s, Ondaatje has been a poetry editor for Toronto's [[Coach House Books]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://alumni.utoronto.ca/news/featured-alumni/michael-ondaatje | title=Michael Ondaatje }}</ref>  Ondaatje and his wife, [[Linda Spalding]], a novelist and academic, co-edit ''[[Brick, A Literary Journal]]'', with [[Michael Redhill]], [[Michael Helm]], and [[Esta Spalding]].<ref name=tmn>[http://www.themorningnews.org/article/michael-ondaatje "Michael Ondaatje"]. ''The Morning News'', by Robert Birnbaum.</ref> Ondaatje served as a founding member of the board of trustees of the [[Griffin Poetry Prize|Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry]] from 2000 to 2018.<ref>[http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/c80000-griffin-poetry-prize-launched-by-renowned-literary-figures-margaret-atwood-robert-hass-michael-ondaatje-robin-robertson-and-david-young/ "C$80,000 Griffin Poetry Prize Launched by Renowned Literary Figures: Margaret Atwood, Robert Hass, Michael Ondaatje, Robin Robertson and David Young"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513093308/http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/c80000-griffin-poetry-prize-launched-by-renowned-literary-figures-margaret-atwood-robert-hass-michael-ondaatje-robin-robertson-and-david-young/ |date=13 May 2016 }}, ''griffinpoetryprize.com'', 6 September 2000.</ref> He established the Gratiaen Trust in [[Sri Lanka]] that annually awards the [[Gratiaen Prize]].

Ondaatje has two children with his first wife, Canadian artist [[Kim Ondaatje]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=ONDAATJE, Kim |url=https://glenhyrst.ca/ondaatje-kim |access-date=2024-10-17 |website=Glenhyrst |language=en-US}}</ref> His brother Sir [[Christopher Ondaatje]] is a philanthropist, businessman and author.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp14390/sir-philip-christopher-ondaatje#:~:text=Financier%2C%20writer%20and%20philanthropist%2C%20Ondaatje,career%20in%20finance%20and%20publishing. | title=Sir (Philip) Christopher Ondaatje - National Portrait Gallery }}</ref>  Ondaatje's nephew [[David Ondaatje]] is a film director and screenwriter, who made the 2009 film ''[[The Lodger (2009 film)|The Lodger]]''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090131110157/http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-01-21/film/the-lodger-forces-out-a-remake-of-a-remake/ "The Lodger forces out a remake of a remake"] , ''Village Voice'', 21 January 2009.</ref>

==Books==

===Novels===

* 1976: ''[[Coming Through Slaughter]]'' (also see "Other" section, 1980, below), Toronto: Anansi, {{ISBN|0-393-08765-4}}; New York: W. W. Norton, 1977<ref name=mopf>Web page titled [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=5142 "Archive: Michael Ondaatje (1943– )"] at the Poetry Foundation website. Retrieved 7 May 2008.</ref>
* 1987: ''[[In the Skin of a Lion]]'', New York: Knopf,<ref name=mopf/> {{ISBN|0-394-56363-8}}, {{ISBN|0-14-011309-6}}
* 1992: ''[[The English Patient]]'', New York: Knopf, {{ISBN|0-679-41678-1}}, {{ISBN|0-679-74520-3}}<ref name=nyt />
* 2000: ''[[Anil's Ghost]]'', New York: Knopf,<ref name="Zepetnek2005" /> {{ISBN|0-375-41053-8}}
* 2007: ''[[Divisadero (novel)|Divisadero]]'', {{ISBN|0-307-26635-4}} {{ISBN|9780307266354}}<ref name=globe />
* 2011: ''[[The Cat's Table]]'', {{ISBN|978-0-7710-6864-5}}, {{ISBN|0-7710-6864-6}}<ref name=nyt />
* 2018: ''[[Warlight]]'', {{ISBN|077107378X}}, {{ISBN|978-0771073786}}

===Poetry collections===

* 1962: Social Call, The Love Story, In Search of Happiness, all featured in [[The Mitre (Lennoxville)|The Mitre]]: Lennoxville: Bishop University Press<ref name=mopf/>
* 1967: ''The Dainty Monsters'', Toronto: Coach House Press<ref name=guardian>[[Robert McCrum|McCrum, Robert]] (28 August 2011), [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/28/michael-ondaatje-the-divided-man "Michael Ondaatje: The divided man"]. ''The Guardian''.</ref>
* 1969: ''The Man with Seven Toes'', Toronto: Coach House Press<ref name=guardian />
* 1970: ''[[The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems]]'' (also see "Other" section, 1973, below), Toronto: Anansi<ref name=guardian /> {{ISBN|0-88784-018-3}}; New York: Berkeley, 1975
* 1973: ''Rat Jelly'', Toronto: Coach House Press<ref name=mopf/>
* 1978: ''Elimination Dance/La danse eliminatoire'', Ilderton: Nairn Coldstream; revised edition, Brick, 1980<ref name=mopf/>
* 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<ref name=mopf/> {{ISBN|0-393-01191-7}}, {{ISBN|0-393-01200-X}}
** published as ''Rat Jelly, and Other Poems, 1963–1978'', London, United Kingdom: Marion Boyars, 1980<ref name=mopf/>
* 1984: ''Secular Love'', Toronto: Coach House Press, {{ISBN|0-88910-288-0}}, {{ISBN|0-393-01991-8}} ; New York: W. W. Norton, 1985<ref name="Learning">{{cite book|author=Gale, Cengage Learning|title=A Study Guide for Michael Ondaatje's "The Cinnamon Peeler"|year=2016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QcP2DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT3|publisher=Gale, Cengage Learning|isbn=978-1-4103-4284-3|page=3}}</ref>
* 1986: ''All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems'' (broadside), Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Woodland Pattern<ref name=mopf/>
* 1986: ''Two Poems, Woodland Pattern'', Milwaukee, Wisconsin<ref name=mopf/>
* 1989: ''[[The Cinnamon Peeler]]: Selected Poems'', London, United Kingdom: Pan; New York: Knopf, 1991<ref name=mopf/>
* 1998: ''Handwriting'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart; New York: Knopf, 1999<ref name=mopf/> {{ISBN|0-375-40559-3}}
* 2006: ''The Story'', Toronto: House of Anansi, {{ISBN|0-88784-194-5}}<ref name=mopf/>
* 2024: ''A Year of Last Things'', London: Jonathan Cape, {{ISBN|9781787335035}} <ref name=mopf/>

===Editor===

* 1971: ''The Broken Ark'', animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revised as ''A Book of Beasts'', 1979<ref name=mopf/> {{ISBN|0-88750-050-1}}
* 1977: ''Personal Fictions: Stories by Munro, Wiebe, Thomas, and Blaise'', Toronto: Oxford University Press<ref name=mopf/> {{ISBN|0-19-540277-4}}
* 1979: ''A Book of Beasts'', animal verse; Ottawa: Oberon; revision of ''The Broken Ark'', 1971<ref name=mopf/>
* 1979: ''The Long Poem Anthology'', Toronto: Coach House<ref name=mopf/> {{ISBN|0-88910-177-9}}
* 1989: With [[Russell Banks]] and [[David Young (Canadian playwright)|David Young]], ''Brushes with Greatness: An Anthology of Chance Encounters with Greatness'', Toronto: Coach House, 1989<ref name=mopf/>
* 1989: Edited with [[Linda Spalding]], ''The Brick Anthology'', illustrated by David Bolduc, Toronto: Coach House Press<ref name=mopf/>
* 1990: ''From Ink Lake: An Anthology of Canadian Short Stories''; New York: Viking<ref name=mopf/> {{ISBN|0-394-28138-1}}
* 1990: ''The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories''; London, United Kingdom: Faber<ref name=mopf/>
* 2000: Edited with Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding and Linda Spalding, ''Lost Classics'', Toronto: Knopf Canada {{ISBN|0-676-97299-3}}; New York: Anchor, 2001
* 2002: Edited and wrote introduction, ''[[Mavis Gallant]], Paris Stories'', New York: New York Review Books<ref name=mopf/>

===Other===

* 1966: ''[[The Offering (1966 film)|The Offering]]'' - co-producer and co-screenwriter
* 1970: ''Leonard Cohen'' (literary criticism), Toronto: McClelland & Stewart<ref name=mopf/>
* 1973: ''The Collected Works of Billy the Kid'' (play; based on his poetry; see "Poetry" section, 1970, above), produced in [[Stratford, Ontario]]; produced in New York, 1974; produced in London, England, 1984<ref name=mopf/>
* 1979: ''Claude Glass'' (literary criticism), Toronto: Coach House Press<ref name=mopf/>
* 1980: ''Coming through Slaughter'' (play based on his novel; see "Novels" section, 1976, above), first produced in Toronto<ref name=mopf/>
* 1982: ''[[Running in the Family (Memoir)|Running in the Family]]'', memoir, New York: W. W. Norton,<ref name="Learning" /> {{ISBN|0-393-01637-4}}, {{ISBN|0-7710-6884-0}}
* 1982: ''Tin Roof'', British Columbia, Canada: Island,<ref name=mopf/> {{ISBN|0-919479-10-3}}, {{ISBN|0-919479-93-6}}
* 1987: ''In the Skin of a Lion'' (based on his novel), New York: Knopf<ref name=mopf/>
* 1994: Edited with [[B. P. Nichol]] and [[George Bowering]], ''An H in the Heart: A Reader'', Toronto: McClelland & Stewart<ref name=mopf/>
* 1996: Wrote introduction, [[Anthony Minghella]], adaptor, ''The English Patient: A Screenplay'', New York: Hyperion Miramax<ref name=mopf/>
* 2002: ''[[The Conversations|The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film]]'', New York: Knopf,<ref name=tmn /> {{ISBN|0-676-97474-0}}
* 2002: ''Films by Michael Ondaatje''<ref>[http://www.mongrelmedia.com/press_info/?id=1485 Films by Michael Ondaatje] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721161500/http://www.mongrelmedia.com/press_info/?id=1485 |date=21 July 2011 }}</ref>
* 2004: ''Vintage Ondaatje'',<ref name=mopf/> {{ISBN|1-4000-7744-3}}

==See also==

{{portal|Poetry}}
*[[Ondaatje Letters]]
*[[Sri Lankan Chetties]]
*[[Christopher Ondaatje]]
*[[Kim Ondaatje]]
*[[Pearl Ondaatje]]
*[[List of Bishop's College School alumni]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==

*  ''Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing''. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. {{ISBN|1-55753-378-4}} 
* Barbour, Douglas. ''Michael Ondaatje.'' New York: Twayne, 1993. {{ISBN|0-8057-8290-7}}
* Jewinski, Ed. ''Michael Ondaatje: Express Yourself Beautifully''. Toronto: ECW, 1994. {{ISBN|1-55022-189-2}}
* 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. {{ISBN|7-301-03482-2}}
* 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. {{ISBN|90-420-0534-3}}

==External links==

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*[https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2018/10/a-more-sentimental-man/ On Michael Ondaatje's late style, in the Literary Review of Canada, by] [[Moez Surani]].
* Jane Henderson (2 May 2016). "[http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/book-blog/ondaatje-wins-st-louis-literary-award/article_ea342706-dc3a-5f9c-9c5d-401f7cb14581.html Ondaatje wins St. Louis Literary Award]". [[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
* {{IMDb name|648546}}
*[http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=2&si=47&s=2913 "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)
*[http://www.ccca.ca/history/ozz/english/books/dainty_monsters/dainty_title.html Full text of ''The Dainty Monsters'']
*[http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/adventures-skin-trade-colum-mccann-michael-ondaatje-conversation "Adventures in the Skin Trade"] [[PEN World Voices]] at LIVE from the [[New York Public Library]]. 4 May 2008 (Video, 1hr, 6 min)
*[http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2007/1922173.htm Transcript of interview] with [[Ramona Koval]] on ''[[The Book Show]]'', [[ABC Radio National]] on [[Divisadero (novel)|''Divisadero'']] recorded in Montreal, April 2007.
*[http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Ondaat.html Profile. Emory University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116112851/http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Ondaat.html |date=16 January 2013 }}
*[https://archive.today/20070930033332/http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=3263 Order of Canada Citation]
*[http://www.salon.com/nov96/ondaatje961118.html Interview With Ondaatje], ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'', November 1996

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