Books by Michael Ondaatje
Born: 09/10/1943Michael Ondaatje Biography & Notes
Michael Ondaatje (born September 12, 1943) is a Canadian author.
Born in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) of Dutch-Tamil-Singhalese origin, in 1954 he moved to England with his mother. His brother Christopher Ondaatje is a noted figure and philanthropist in the United Kingdom.
After relocating to Canada in 1962, Ondaatje became a Canadian citizen. Ondaatje received his BA from the University of Toronto and his MA from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. In the mid-1960s he settled in Toronto, from 1971 to 1983 he taught at York University and since then at Glendon College in Toronto.
His style of fiction introduced in In the Skin of a Lion and mastered in The English Patient is non-linear. He creates a narrative by exploring many interconnected snapshots in great detail.
Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje's work also encompasses memoir, poetry, and film. Besides his memoir of his Sri Lankan childhood, Running in the Family, and his Governor General's Award winning book of poetry, There's a Trick With a Knife he is known for four works of fiction:
* The English Patient -- winner of the Booker Prize, the Canada Australia Prize, and the Canada Governor General's Award and later made into a motion picture, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
* In the Skin of a Lion -- a fictional story about early immigrant settlers in Toronto.
* Coming Through Slaughter -- a fictional story of New Orleans, Louisiana about 1900 very loosely based on jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden. Winner of the 1977 Books in Canada First Novel Award
* Anil's Ghost -- winner of the 2000 Giller Prize, the Prix M�dicis, and Canada's Governor General's Award.
Born in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) of Dutch-Tamil-Singhalese origin, in 1954 he moved to England with his mother. His brother Christopher Ondaatje is a noted figure and philanthropist in the United Kingdom.
After relocating to Canada in 1962, Ondaatje became a Canadian citizen. Ondaatje received his BA from the University of Toronto and his MA from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. In the mid-1960s he settled in Toronto, from 1971 to 1983 he taught at York University and since then at Glendon College in Toronto.
His style of fiction introduced in In the Skin of a Lion and mastered in The English Patient is non-linear. He creates a narrative by exploring many interconnected snapshots in great detail.
Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje's work also encompasses memoir, poetry, and film. Besides his memoir of his Sri Lankan childhood, Running in the Family, and his Governor General's Award winning book of poetry, There's a Trick With a Knife he is known for four works of fiction:
* The English Patient -- winner of the Booker Prize, the Canada Australia Prize, and the Canada Governor General's Award and later made into a motion picture, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
* In the Skin of a Lion -- a fictional story about early immigrant settlers in Toronto.
* Coming Through Slaughter -- a fictional story of New Orleans, Louisiana about 1900 very loosely based on jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden. Winner of the 1977 Books in Canada First Novel Award
* Anil's Ghost -- winner of the 2000 Giller Prize, the Prix M�dicis, and Canada's Governor General's Award.
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Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje ( 2001)
A winner of the Booker Prize, the Canada Australia Prize, and the Canada Governor General's Award, the critically acclaimed author of The English Patient brings to life the story of a forensic pathologist, who returns to Sri Lanka--after fifteen years abroad--to assist in identifying victims of the country's civil war.
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Brick A Literary Journal Fall 2000 by ( 2000)
The annual collection of essays, excerpts, and interviews includes work from Isabel Huggan, Alice Munro, Edmund White, Pico Iyer, Alice Walker,John Berger, and Barry Lopez, among other notable authors. Original.
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Brick A Literary Journal by ( 2002) |
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Brick 68 A Literary Journal by ( 2001) |
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The Broken Ark, a Book of Beasts by ( 1971) |
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Brushes With Greatness An Anthology of Chance Encounters With Greatness by ( 1989) |
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The Cinnamon Peeler Selected Poems by Michael Ondaatje ( 1997)
If Michael Ondaatje's novels have the compression and imagistic power of poetry, his poems often read like narratives that have been pared down to their mysterious essence. The poems that have been brought together in this electrifying volume are stylish yet endlessly surprising explorations of friendship and passion, family history and personal mythology.
Spanning twenty-seven years and representing the best poems from Ondaatje's hard-to-find earlier collections, THE CINNAMON PEELER is a masterpiece of intelligence and ardor, informed by rueful wit, sensitivity to nature, and an exultant love of language. |
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid Library Edition by Michael Ondaatje ( 2009)
Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own fund of imagination and empathy, Ondaajte traces Billy the Kid's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country.
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje ( 1998)
Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own fund of imagination and empathy, Ondaajte traces Billy the Kid's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country.
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje ( 2008)
Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own fund of imagination and empathy, Ondaajte traces Billy the Kid's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country.
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid Library Edition by Michael Ondaatje ( 2009)
Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own fund of imagination and empathy, Ondaajte traces Billy the Kid's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country.
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid Library Edition by Michael Ondaatje ( 2009)
Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own fund of imagination and empathy, Ondaajte traces Billy the Kid's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country.
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Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje ( 1996)
Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place. In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatjes prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he chases Bolden through documents and scenes, the novel partakes of the very best sort of modern detective novel--one where the enigma is never resolved, but allowed to manifest in its fullness. Though more experimental' in form than either The English Patient or In the Skin of a Lion, it is a fitting addition to the renowned Ondaatje oeuvre.
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The Conversations Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje ( 2004)
A collection of conversations and dialogues between the author and Academy Award-winning film and sound editor Walter Murch offers a revealing, inside look at how films are put together, from the various working styles of such directors as Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, to the techniques and creative art of editing film. Reprint.
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The Conversations by Michael Ondaatje ( 2003)
The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share a great passion for film and storytelling, and whose knowledge and love of the crafts of writing and film shine through.
It was on the set of the movie adaptation of his Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient, that Michael Ondaatje met the master film and sound editor Walter Murch, and the two began a remarkable personal conversation about the making of films and books in our time that continued over two years. From those conversations stemmed this enlightened, affectionate book -- a mine of wonderful, surprising observations and information about editing, writing and literature, music and sound, the I-Ching, dreams, art and history. The Conversations is filled with stories about how some of the most important movies of the last thirty years were made and about the people who brought them to the screen. It traces the artistic growth of Murch, as well as his friends and contemporaries -- including directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Fred Zinneman and Anthony Minghella -- from the creation of the independent, anti-Hollywood Zoetrope by a handful of brilliant, bearded young men to the recent triumph of Apocalypse Now Redux. Among the films Murch has worked on are American Graffiti, The Conversation, the remake of A Touch of Evil, Julia, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather (all three), The Talented Mr. Ripley, and The English Patient. “Walter Murch is a true oddity in Hollywood. A genuine intellectual and renaissance man who appears wise and private at the centre of various temporary storms to do with film making and his whole generation of filmmakers. He knows, probably, where a lot of the bodies are buried.” |
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The Dainty Monsters by Michael Ondaatje ( 1994) |
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Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje ( 2008)
"In the 1970s in Northern California, a father and his teenage daughters work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them, but their makeshift family is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives."
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Elimination Dance = LA Danse Eliminatoire by Michael Ondaatje ( 1995) |
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En Una Piel De Leon by Michael Ondaatje ( 2002) |
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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje ( 1997)
A novel about four people in an Italian villa at the end of World War II: Hana the nurse, Caravaggio the thief, Kip the Sikh, and the horribly burned English patient whose memories of love take the narrative back to the 1930s, and a different world.
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The English Patient A Screenplay by Anthony Minghella, Michael English Patient Ondaatje ( 1996)
Based on Micheal Ondaatje's international bestseller, Anthony Mighella's epic screenplay is published to coincide with the release of the Miramax film starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, and Kristen Scott Thomas.
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El Fantasma De Anil by Michael Ondaatje ( 2001) |
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From Ink Lake Canadian Stories by ( 1992)
Ranging from fable, to chronicle, to intimate moment, and from the early days of the century to the present, these fifty stories by well-known authors reveal the geographical, emotional, and literary range of Canada.
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In the Skin of a Lion A Novel by Michael Ondaatje ( 1997)
With this dazzling predecessor to his Booker Prize-winning THE ENGLISH PATIENT, Michael Ondaatje gives us a novel that bristles with intelligence and shimmers with romance as it tests the boundary between history and myth.
Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s as an immigrant from Canada's backwoods. In this throbbing, polyglot city he earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. He falls in love with two actresses. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in THE ENGLISH PATIENT, including the orphaned girl Hana and the charmed thief Caravaggio. And out of these branching, doubling stories, Ondaatje creates a dreamlike and surreal world. IN THE SKIN OF A LION is a work of unalloyed enchantment, beautifully written and prodigiously imagined. |
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The Long Poem Anthology by Michael Ondaatje ( 1979) |
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Lost Classics by ( 2001)
An Anchor Books Original
Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost–great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission. Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classics is a reader’s delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost books. As the editors have written in a joint introduction to the book, “being lovers of books, we’ve pulled a scent of these absences behind us our whole reading lives, telling people about books that exist only on our own shelves, or even just in our own memory.” Anyone who has ever been changed by a book will find kindred spirits in the pages of Lost Classics. Each of the editors has contributed a lost book essay to this collection, including Michael Ondaatje on Sri Lankan filmmaker Tissa Abeysekara’s Bringing Tony Home, a novella about a mutual era of childhood. Also included are Margaret Atwood on sex and death in the scandalous Doctor Glas, first published in Sweden in 1905; Russell Banks on the off-beat travelogue Too Late to Turn Back by Barbara Greene–the “slightly ditzy” cousin of Graham; Bill Richardson on a children’s book for adults by Russell Hoban; Ronald Wright on William Golding’s Pincher Martin; Caryl Phillips on Michael Mac Liammoir’s account of his experiences on the set of Orson Welles’s Othello, and much, much more. |
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El Paciente Ingles by Michael Ondaatje, Carlos Manzano ( 2001)
A novel about four people in an Italian villa at the end of World War II: Hana the nurse, Caravaggio the thief, Kip the Sikh, and the horribly burned English patient whose memories of love take the narrative back to the 1930s, and a different world. This is a Spanish-language version of the text.
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Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant ( 2006)
Introduced by Michael Ondaatje, this volume of Mavis Gallant's stories is set in Paris, as the title suggests. Gallant's incisive, compact, and insightful stories, which appeared regularly in The New Yorker throughout the last half of the 20th century, have long been championed by critics and by other writers without achieving a wide readership.
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Le Patient Anglais (L'Homme Flambe)/ The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje ( 1997) |
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Personal Fictions by Michael Ondaatje ( 1977) |
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Previous Canoes by Michael Ondaatje ( 1994) |
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Rat Jelly by Michael Ondaatje ( 1994) |
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Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje ( 1996)
2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Michael Ondaatje"Michael Ondaatje is here at his agile and evocative best . . . Brightly colored, sweet and painful, bloody-midned and otherworldly, [Running in the Family] achieves the status of legend."-Margaret AtwoodIn the late 1970s, Michael Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. Recording his journey through he druglike heat and intoxicating fragrances of the "pendant off the ear of India", Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. It is a story of broken engagements and drunken suicide attempts, of parties where exquisitely dressed couples tango in the jungle, a tale whose actors pursue lives of Baudelairean excess with impeccable decorum.Lyrical and witty, tragic and deliriously romantic, Running in the family is an inspired marriage of travel narrative and family memoir by one of our most eloquent and poetic writers.
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Running in the Family Library Edition by ( 2006) |
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Running in the Family Library Edition by ( 2006) |
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Running in the Family Library Edition by ( 2006) |
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Secular Love by Michael Ondaatje ( 1985)
The first full-length book of new poems from this poet in more than a decade, this collection is marked by Ondaatje's command of a broad range of poetic forms and by his characteristic juxtapositions of the everyday and the exotic.
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The Story by Michael Ondaatje, David Bolduc ( 2006)
In a sensual combination of verse and evocative watercolors, a unique poem unfolds into "our dismantled childhoods" and offers readers the opportunity to extend its narrative into their own lives.
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There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to Do Poems, 1962-1978 by Michael Ondaatje ( 1979)
Selected and new poems offer glimpses of a private world in which images of horror are viewed through mirrors and prisms and in which madmen and animals inhabit a landscape of fearful natural beauty.
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Tin Roof by Michael Ondaatje ( 1982) |
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Vintage Ondaatje by Michael Ondaatje ( 2004)
In his novels, poetry, and memoirs, Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje moves from the blasted landscape of Billy the Kid in 1880s New Mexico to the New Orleans jazz world of the legendary Buddy Bolden at the turn of the century, from his native Sri Lanka to the African desert of World War II. Compassionate, lyrical, spellbinding, the work he has created unfolds with mystery and eloquence and enlarges our literature.
Included in Vintage Ondaatje are portions of the novels Anil’s Ghost, In the Skin of the Lion, Coming Through Slaughter, and The English Patient; the memoir Running in the Family; sections from The Collected Works of Billy the Kid; and a selection of the poetry. Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions. |
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El paciente ingles / The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje ( 2008) |