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	Ondaatje, Michael (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Ondaatje, Michael, poet, novelist, filmmaker, editor (b at Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka] 12 Sept 1943).
		Michael Ondaatje's work often blends or counterposes the factual and the imaginary, poetry and prose.
		Ondaatje's imagery is characterized by its preoccupation with romantic exoticism and multiculturalism; its gravitation towards the bizarre, the exaggerated, and the unlikely; its fascination with the secret codes of violence in both personal and political life; and with its continued delving into the world of movies, jazz and friendship.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0005927 (621 words)

	Michael Ondaatje ★ Steven Barclay Agency
		Michael Ondaatje’s prose is a stunning fusion of jazz rhythms, film montage technique, and profoundly beautiful language.
		In 2000, Michael Ondaatje was awarded the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the Prix Medicis, the Governor General’s Award, and the Giller Prize for his novel Anil's Ghost.
		Michael Ondaatje’s most recent non-fiction work is The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film.
	www.barclayagency.com /ondaatje.html (350 words)

	Amazon.com: Anil's Ghost: Books: Michael Ondaatje (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Michael Ondaatje has brilliantly evoked the horrors of the civil war in his native Sri Lanka by focusing on the people not directly involved in the war but nonetheless affected by it on a deep, personal level.
		Ondaatje takes his time in developing the plot of the novel as he seems to want the reader to slow down and drink in the words he is putting forth about this island and its troubles.
		Ondaatje is successful in conveying the horrors of the fighting, and his own delight in the cultural history and physical landscapes of his native land, while writing with great restraint.
	www.amazon.com /Anils-Ghost-Michael-Ondaatje/dp/0375410538 (2447 words)

	Scriptorium - Michael Ondaatje
		Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje attempts such mystical conjuration in both his prose and poetic prints, while still remaining true to the rhythms of the geographic peoples he mimics in his narratives.
		Michael Ondaatje was born Sri Lanka, but emigrated to Canada, by way of England, in 1962.
		Ondaatje, at the age of nineteen, completed his formal education in Canada, receiving a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto, and then a Master's degree from Queens University.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/ondaatje.html (909 words)

	The Tartan Online : Michael Ondaatje: Author of "The English Patient" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Michael Ondaatje has lived in Sri Lanka, England, and Canada, but was born to Indian and Dutch parents.
		The works about family are the most engaging: his grandmother truly came to life as he described her stealing people?s prize roses from their gardens and dressing his mother up as a lobster so that she could win the prize in a costume party.
		Ondaatje may be critically acclaimed, but the way he plans a story may give hope to all the would-be writers out there that feel they can never come up with the ideas that some authors have.
	thetartan.org /pillbox/2005/11/14/ondaatje (482 words)

	BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Michael Ondaatje
		Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka of a family of mixed Dutch, Tamil and Sinhalese origin.
		Ondaatje went to England in 1954, where he was educated at Dulwich College.
		In 1976, Ondaatje published Coming Through the Slaughter 1976, a novel about the madness and death of Buddy Bolden, the legendary New Orleans jazz musician, which again combines fact and fiction in a compelling mixture.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ondaatjem2.shtml (408 words)

	Michael Ondaatje: About the Author
		Sri-Lanka native Michael Ondaatje is a literary phenomenon: a best-selling writer, one whose work is a stunning fusion of jazz rhythms, film montage technique, and profoundly beautiful language.
		Ondaatje is one of North America's finest novelists.
		Michael Ondaatje was awarded the Booker Prize in 1992.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/ondaatje/author.html (285 words)

	Michael Ondaatje - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC (born 12 September 1943) is a Canadian/Sri Lankan novelist and poet perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film, The English Patient.
		Ondaatje received his BA from the University of Toronto and his MA from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and began teaching at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.
		In 1988 Michael Ondaatje was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC) and two years later became a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Ondaatje (732 words)

	BookPage Interview May 2000: Michael Ondaatje
		Set in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where Ondaatje was born, it tells the story of Anil, who like the author, is both a native of the country and a stranger to it.
		Ondaatje's depiction of Anil's painstaking work reading the bones of the dead is as haunting as it is true to life.
		Ondaatje, who sees connections between all things, hastens to add that the situation in Anil's Ghost is not endemic only to Sri Lanka.
	www.bookpage.com /0005bp/michael_ondaatje.html (1193 words)

	On The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - Lydia Eugene
		Ondaatje uses a third person narrator to directly address the reader and to establish an relation of intimacy between reader and character.
		Ondaatje separates and isolates this sentence example after a detailed description of Bowdre's death to reinforce the phenomena of vision as an intrinsic proliferation in the moment of physical destruction.
		Ondaatje's production of the sublime was both enabled and defined by his awareness of the tension between the bizarre and the mundane.
	maclawran.ca /sean/bunny/b01/ess/le-billy.html (1764 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Michael Ondaatje
		Anil's Ghost, Ondaatje's first novel since The English Patient captured the 1992 Booker Prize, transports readers to Sri Lanka, dropping us smack in the middle of the island country's brutal civil war.
		Ondaatje: I think it came from the image of someone returning to a country they'd once been a part of, now finding themselves a stranger in that place.
		Ondaatje: The books are in some ways a pair, though they seem to be from a different perspective.
	powells.com /authors/ondaatje.html (2722 words)

	Canada Reads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politically powerful, the anarchists, bridge builders and tunnellers, a vanished millionaire and his mistress, a rescued nun and a thief who leads a charmed life.
		Michael Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) on Sept. 12, 1943.
		Ondaatje’s next novel, 1992’s The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film.
	www.cbc.ca /canadareads/cr_2002/skin.html (258 words)

	Michael Ondaatje (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka on 12 September 1943.
		Ondaatje is, along with Margaret Atwood, one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and one of the country's biggest cultural exports.
		Ondaatje has said that the novel articulates 'All people born in one place who live in another place [and who] have lost their source'.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth205 (1492 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
		Author of eleven books of poetry, four novels and a fictionalized memoir, Michael Ondaatje was born in 1943 in Colombo, capital of the British colony of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
		Of his father, who served in the Ceylon light infantry, Ondaatje has said: “My father was in tea and alcohol; he dealt in tea and he drank the alcohol.” He died of a brain hemorrhage after Michael had left Sri Lanka, so Michael never got to know his father as an adult.
		Ondaatje obtained a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.A. from Queen’s University, then taught at the University of Western Ontario and at York University.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0394281829 (760 words)

	Books of the poet: Michael Ondaatje - book works writings work
		Ondaatje present's life of his family trough generations who lived on Ceilon (Shri Lanka), in a series of random images, which are more like picture, than prose.
		The novelist Michael Ondaatje, whose best-known novel THE ENGLISH PATIENT was adapted by Anthony Minghella into another a film cut by Murch, had the fine idea of sitting down for a series of conversations with Murch to ask him about his little-understood, important, and intelligent art form.
		Ondaatje has really gotten into the sprit of the area as he pin points local figures 'the mystic from Millbank' we all knew who these people were that he was pin pointing which was very lovely.
	www.poemhunter.com /michael-ondaatje/books/poet-8374 (2681 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Michael Ondaatje
		Michael Ondaatje is a literary phenomenon—he’s a gifted poet, a bestselling novelist and has also made it in Hollywood.
		Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
		Ondaatje is also a film aficionado and has made several documentary films.
	www.lectures.org /ondaatje.html (676 words)

	authortrek.com - Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
		Here Ondaatje seems to be dealing with the ancient binary opposition of the West as rational and the East as irrational, with Anil embodying the values of the West, and Sarath embodying those of the East.
		Ondaatje seems to have swapped the genders here, since Anil is most assuredly female (she claims she longs for the privacy of the West, but delights bathing in open air showers).
		Ondaatje doesn't give us a tedious list of 'rights' and 'wrongs' in the Sri Lankan context, but merely conveys that everyone has lost someone, and carry with them a ghost.
	www.authortrek.com /anils_ghost.html (1020 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Michael Ondaatje
		Michael Ondaatje's novels lend themselves to post-modern and post-colonial approaches to literature but his distinctive appeal as a poet and novelist is that of an experimental practitioner and stylist expert in creating sensuous and sensual effects.
		Philip Michael Ondaatje was born on 12 September 1943 in Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
		Ondaatje lived with his mother and her family, attending St Thomas' College School in Colombo from 1949 and then rejoining his mother, who had already moved to London, in 1952.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4944 (704 words)

	100 Canadian Poets - Michael Ondaatje - Profile
		Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) on September 12, 1943.
		Ondaatje is perhaps best known for the screen adaptation of his novel, The English Patient, which won nine Academy Awards in 1996.
		Ondaatje won again in 1979 for poetry and in 1992 for fiction with The English Patient.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/m_ondaatje.htm (604 words)

	Amazon.de: Anil's Ghost: English Books: Michael Ondaatje (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Anil's Ghost is Michael Ondaatje's eagerly awaited follow-up to his classic Booker prize-winning novel The English Patient.
		Drawing on Ondaatje's own Sri Lankan heritage, wonderfully explored in his travel narrative Running in the Family, Anil's Ghost is located in contemporary Sri Lanka, in the midst of interminable internecine civil war between government forces, separatist Tamils and antigovernment insurgents.
		Ondaatje reflects upon the ancient history of Sri Lanka through the fragments of history and identity that Anil and Sarath uphold in the face of the murder and chaos which surrounds them.
	www.amazon.de /Anils-Ghost-Michael-Ondaatje/dp/0375724370 (1964 words)

	The Struggle of Postmodernism and Postcolonialism in Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		For Ondaatje's part, he re-evaluates history, the marginalized, the power struggle between the center and the periphery, and finally language as a source of power in a post-colonial context.
		One way Ondaatje deconstructs Toronto's official history is in his attempt to subvert linear notions of causation, which is a post-modernists reaction to the traditional Aristotelian linear narrative form.
		By Ondaatje incorporating theses sources into his novel, the narrative events "contained in the account are endowed with a meaning by being identified as parts of an integrated whole." Essentially, Ondaatje has fused many worlds, and many narratives together into one "collective whole.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /canada/literature/ondaatje/mcinnis3.html (2423 words)

	WAG: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost
		But as she quickly discovers, in a country where the government is routinely (if secretly) dropping its enemies out of helicopters high over the ocean, pursuing such an investigation isn't going to be accepted readily.
		In the midst of growing anxiety and uncertainty about her own safety and the value of the investigation, Anil resolves to identify the body as a gesture of defiance against the war of fear that controls her homeplace.
		Ondaatje (who has published more books of poetry than he has fiction) writes with an understated concision, moving with a stunning smoothness between the past and the present and breaking his chapters up into smaller sections that seem to balance and hover over the text with a magical, poetic glow.
	www.thewag.net /books/ondaatje.htm (772 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| Russell Banks and Michael Ondaatje
		When Ondaatje decided to write about America, he chose legendary figures of whom the historical facts are scant: the elusive jazz trumpeter Buddy Bolden (in his fictionalization of Bolden's life, Coming through Slaughter) and Billy the Kid, in his 1970 The Collected Works of Billy the Kid.
		When Ondaatje writes about different levels of pain--burning alive, Nazi torture, the minor injuries a furious woman inflicts on her stubborn lover--he always describes the scars instead of the wounds.
		Ondaatje seems to be in the same line of work as Anil.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/02.22.01/banks-ondaatje-0108.html (1155 words)

	Powell's Books - Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje
		However, many of the most dedicated fans of Ondaatje's novels fail to realize that he is primarily a poet; Ondaatje had published five collections of poetry before his first work of fiction.
		The falling away of culture is juxtaposed with an individual's sense of loss, grief, and remembrance, as Ondaatje weaves a rich tapestry of images--the unburial of stone Buddhas, a family of stilt-walkers crossing a field, the pattern of teeth marks on skin drawn by a monk from memory.
		In it, we are reminded once again of Michael Ondaatje's unique artistry with language and of his stature as one of the finest poets writing today.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0771068778 (401 words)

	Salon \| Michael Ondaatje
		As he relates in his marvelous memoir, "Running in the Family," Ondaatje grew up in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the child of a strong-willed mother and a brilliant, maniacally eccentric father who was given, when in his superhuman cups, to pulling revolvers on trains and forcing them to run back and forth at his pleasure.
		As Ondaatje explores his Dutch-Ceylonese genealogy, he paints a sad, hilarious, unforgettable picture of lives lived to a surreal tropical hilt: an entire society consumed by compulsive gambling, whether on the race-track or on which crow would leave a wall first; endless affairs; bitter, witty feuds carried out in the "comments" section of hotel registers.
		Ondaatje left Ceylon for England, and later moved to Canada, where he lives in Toronto and teaches at York University.
	www.salon.com /nov96/ondaatje961118.html (2279 words)

	Films by Michael Ondaatje
		For the first time ever, Michael Ondaatje’s films are being released on dvd.
		Ondaatje captures the artist/writer and sound performer and uncovers what made him influence a generation of North American and European poets and writers.
		Michael Ondaatje’s books include “Anil's Ghost”, “In the Skin of a Lion”, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and “Running in the Family”.
	mongrelmedia.com /films/Ondaatje.html (285 words)

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