Michael Ondaatje

Bio:

Michael Ondaatje is a poet, novelist, and editor born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and based in Toronto, Canada. His work dissolves the lines between prose and poetry, merging myth, history, memoir, and song. An editor for the literary magazine Brick and longtime editor at Coach House Press, Ondaatje has received multiple Governor General’s Awards for both poetry and fiction and has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. His best-known novel, The English Patient (1992), earned the Booker Prize—the first awarded to a Canadian writer—and its film adaptation went on to win nine Academy Awards.