Ondaatje

/ ɒnˈdɑːtʃe /

noun

OndaatjeMichael1943MCanadianSri LankanWRITING: poetWRITING: novelist 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)

Michael Ondaatje, Elizabeth Alexander, Jackie Kay, and Robert Pinsky have all appeared here over the years.

His previous book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs, was shortlisted for the 2004 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.

The "patriots" found an eloquent leader in the person of a young student named Ondaatje.

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