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Michael Ondaatje, author portrait
© Teri Pengilley

Michael Ondaatje

MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and became a major motion picture that won nine Academy Awards, including Best Film; Anil's Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.
The Distance of a Shout
A Year of Last Things
Warlight
The Cat's Table
The English Patient
The Conversations
Anil's Ghost
Coming Through Slaughter
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Running in the Family

Books

The Distance of a Shout
A Year of Last Things
Warlight
The Cat's Table
The English Patient
The Conversations
Anil's Ghost
Coming Through Slaughter
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Running in the Family