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| Name: |
Michael Ondaatje | | Variant Name: |
Philip Michael Ondaatje | | Birth Date: |
1943 | | Place of Birth: |
Colombo, Ceylon | | Nationality: |
Canadian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, novelist, poet |
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 Biography of (Philip) Michael Ondaatje
5,379 words, approx. 18 pages
 Winner of two Governor General's awards for poetry, Michael Ondaatje is one of the most brilliant and acclaimed of that impressive group of Canadian poets who first published in the 1960s, a group that includes Margaret Atwood, Gwen MacEwen, and B. P.... summary from source:
 Biography of Michael Ondaatje
1,792 words, approx. 6 pages
Once a highly regarded denizen of a burgeoning Canadian literary scene in the early 1970s, Michael Ondaatje (born 1943) has since gone on to achieve international renown for his poetry and fiction. His 1992 novel, The English Patient, was made into a... 
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 Michael Ondaatje Information
1,242 words, approx. 4 pages
 Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC, (pronounced /ɒnˈdɑːtʃiː/), (born 12 September, 1943) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film, The English...
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 The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) Michael Ondaatje dissects the writing process.(Stars)
05/11/2008: 2,302 words, approx. 8 pages Byline: Laura T. Ryan Staff writer Michael Ondaatje seems to carry a lifetime of travels in his voice. Born and raised on the island nation of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), he lived in London as a teen, then emigrated as a young... summary from source:
American Review of Canadian Studies Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje.(Book review)
09/22/2006: 1,422 words, approx. 5 pages Sam Solecki. Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. iii + 219 pp. $60.00 cloth. In Ragas of Longing, the first book-length study of Michael Ondaatje's poetry, Sam Solecki presents a perceptive reading of Ondaatje's six... summary from source:
 AP News Elizabeth Hay wins $40,000 book prize
11/8/2007: 270 words, approx. 1 pagesElizabeth Hay, a former radio journalist who long hoped to write a novel about her "golden summer" working in northern Canada in the 1970s, won the lucrative Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel "Late Nights on Air.""I am very thrilled and very lucky — so... summary from source:
AP News Achebe wins Booker Prize for fiction
6/13/2007: 606 words, approx. 2 pagesNigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.Achebe, 76, is best known for his first...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Douglas Barbour
15,699 words, approx. 52 pages
In the following essay, Barbour traces Ondaatje's poetic development from his first collection through There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do. Barbour discovers a trend in Ondaatje's writing toward more experimental and personal poetry.
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Critical Essay by Judith Owens
9,116 words, approx. 30 pages
In the essay below, Owens presents a thorough analysis of The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, focusing in particular on the tension between order and disorder in the collection. Owens asserts that Billy “seeks or imposes order in the external world to compensate for a disintegrating inner world.”
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Critical Essay by S. Leigh Matthews
8,355 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Matthews connects the autobiographical elements of Running in the Family with conventional dramatic techniques in order to demonstrate the work's ritualized “performance” of personal, familial, and community identity.
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