The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), May 11th, 2008
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 student in the early 1960s to Canada, where he lives today.
In a recent chat from his Toronto office, the 64-year-old Ondaatje speaks softly in an accent that seems to blend British inflection with Canadian cadence.
Although the author of some dozen volumes of poetry, as well as plays and literary criticism, Ondaatje (pronounced on-DAHT-chay) is best known for his five...
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