Author

Books by Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet whose work moves between lyricism, fragmented structure, and postcolonial preoccupations. His novels include Coming Through Slaughter, In the Skin of a Lion, Anil's Ghost, Divisadero, and The Cat's Table. The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and was adapted into a highly successful film in 1996. He has also published poetry collections and a memoir, Running in the Family. He is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive prose stylists writing in English.