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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. Ni...

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 mot...

The English Patient Michael Ondaatje was born in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, in 1943. Educated in Sri Lanka and England, he immigrated to Canada in 1962. A poet and novelist, Ondaatje has become one of Canada’s foremost writers, the center of a...

The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned man, his Canadian nurse, a Canadian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as...

British actor Ralph Fiennes said Wednesday that he was moved by the strength shown by India's HIV infected rural population in the face of severe social ostracism.Fiennes spent the last five days traveling to four villages in the western Indian state of Maharashtra listening to...

British actor Ralph Fiennes said Wednesday that he was moved by the strength shown by India's HIV-infected rural population in the face of severe social ostracism.Fiennes spent the last five days traveling to four villages in the western Indian state of Maharashtra listening to the...

Botswana welcomed a crew making a film of a popular series of detective novels set in this southern African country, with officials saying the movie would generate good publicity for Africa.The film based on the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith...

Botswana welcomed a crew making a film of a popular series of detective novels set in this southern African country, with officials saying the movie would generate good publicity for Africa.The film based on the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith...

In the following essay, Fledderus correlates several aspects of the characters and plot of The English Patient to various character types and narrative elements that typify Arthurian romance and medieval quest literature.

In the following essay, Roxborough explicates the significance of Christian imagery and alternating mythical identities of the characters in The English Patient, tracing a narrative subtext that closely parallels elements of the New Testament.

In the following essay, Ellis discusses Ondaatje's representation of masculinity in The English Patient, demonstrating how the novel constructs a masculine identity through personal relationships instead of traditional cultural assumptions about masculine autonomy, isolation, and individuation.

Culture and values refer to the shared social practices, relations, and beliefs of a community of people. A text may be embedded with a writer's values or represent a particular culture in different perspectives. An examination of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and stimulus material, reveals that culture and values, especially those of Europeans and their effects on other cultures and values, are represented in a variety of ways. In each text, the characters, sett

A comparison essay between "The English Patient" and "The Ecclesiazusae."

Analyzes Michael Ondaatje's novel, "The English Patient." Discusses Ondaatje's use of symbolism and explores the meanings of many of the symbols used in the text.