| Michael Ondaatje  AKA Philip Michael Ondaatje
Born: 12-Sep-1943
Birthplace: Colombo, Ceylon
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Poet Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: The English Patient Father: Mervyn Ondaatje
Mother: Doris Gratiaen
Brother: Christopher Ondaatje (businessman, b. 22-Feb-1933)
Wife: Linda Spalding (novelist)
High School: St. Thomas College, Colombo
High School: Dulwich College, London
University: Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec (1962-64)
University: BA English, University of Toronto (1965)
University: MA, Queens University Kingston (1967)
Professor: York University Toronto (1971-)
Man Booker Prize for Fiction 1992 for The English Patient
Prix M�dicis �tranger 2000 for Anil's Ghost
Giller Prize 2000 for Anil's Ghost (tie)
Order of Canada 1988
American Academy of Arts and Letters 2000
Naturalized Canadian Citizen
Author of books:
The Dainty Monsters (1967, poetry)
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems (1970, poetry)
Coming Through Slaughter (1976, novel)
There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems 1973-1978 (1979, poetry)
Running in the Family (1982, memoir)
Secular Love (1984, poetry)
In the Skin of a Lion (1987, novel)
The Cinnamon Peeler (1989, poetry)
The English Patient (1992, novel)
Handwriting: Poems (1998, poetry)
Anil's Ghost (2000, novel)
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