Michael Ondaatje
Novelist, Author
1943 –
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Who is Michael Ondaatje?
Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet. He won the Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient, which was adapted as a 1996 film of the same name. It won multiple Academy Awards.
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- Born
- Sep 12, 1943
Colombo - Also known as
- Philip Michael Ondaatje
- Ondaatje, Michael
- Kip
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Nationality
- Canada
- Sri Lanka
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, Queen's University
( - 1967) - Bachelor of Arts, University of Toronto
( - 1965) - Bishop's University
- Dulwich College
- Bishop's College School
- Master of Arts, Queen's University
- Employment
- York University
(1971 - 1988) - University of Western Ontario
- York University
- Lived in
- Toronto
(1970 - ) - Lennoxville, Quebec
(1962 - ) - London
( - 1970)
- Toronto
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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