Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje, born in Colombo in 1943, left Ceylon at the age of eleven to join his mother in England, then settled in Canada in the early sixties. He teaches literature at Glendon College of York University, in Toronto. A poet first, he later turned to the novel; a narrative set in Italy at the end of the Second World War won him the Booker Prize, shared with Barry Unsworth, then, years later, the Golden Man Booker, which singled out the best book of the prize's first fifty years.

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• NarrativeRunning in the FamilyMichael Ondaatje · 1982Literature