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Michael Ondaatje

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Philip Michael Ondaatje, (born 12 September 1943), is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor and filmmaker. [1]

84 relations: Academy Award for Best Picture, Amazon.ca First Novel Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Anil's Ghost, Anthony Minghella, Barrie Phillip Nichol, Bishop's University, Booker Prize, Brick (magazine), British Ceylon, Buddy Bolden, Canada Reads, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Charlie Hebdo, Charlie Hebdo shooting, Christopher Ondaatje, Coach House Books, Colombo, Coming Through Slaughter, D. G. Jones, Daniel Brooks, David Young (Canadian playwright), Divisadero (novel), Dulwich College, Dutch people, E. J. Bellocq, Esta Spalding, George Bowering, Giller Prize, Glendon College, Governor General of Canada, Governor General's Award for English-language fiction, Governor General's Awards, Griffin Poetry Prize, Gulf Coast (magazine), In the Skin of a Lion, Kim Ondaatje, Lennoxville, Quebec, Linda Spalding, List of Companions of the Order of Canada, London, Ontario, Mavis Gallant, Michael Helm, Michael Redhill, New Orleans, New York Public Library, Ondaatje Letters, Ontario, Order of Canada, Orders, decorations, and medals of Sri Lanka, ..., Pearl Ondaatje, PEN American Center, PEN World Voices, Prix Médicis, Purdue University Press, Quebec, Queen's University, Radio National, Ramona Koval, Running in the Family (memoir), Russell Banks, Salon (website), Sinhalese people, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Chetties, St. Louis Literary Award, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Stratford, Ontario, Tamils, The Book Show, The Cat's Table, The Cinnamon Peeler, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems, The English Patient, The English Patient (film), The Lodger (2009 film), Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto Book Awards, Tulane University, University of Toronto, University of Western Ontario, Walter Murch, Warlight, York University. Expand index (34 more) »

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Amazon.ca First Novel Award

The Amazon.ca First Novel Award, formerly the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a $40,000 literary award, co-presented by The Walrus given annually to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.

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Anil's Ghost

Anil’s Ghost is the critically acclaimed fourth novel by Michael Ondaatje.

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Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 195418 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter.

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Barrie Phillip Nichol

Barrie Phillip Nichol (30 September 1944 – 25 September 1988), known as bpNichol, was a Canadian poet, writer, sound poet, editor and grOnk/Ganglia Press publisher.

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Bishop's University

Bishop's University (Université Bishop's) is an English-language and predominantly undergraduate university in Lennoxville, a borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.

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Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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Brick (magazine)

Brick, A Literary Journal is a biannual literary magazine established in 1977.

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British Ceylon

Ceylon (Sinhala: බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ලංකාව, Brithānya Laṃkāva; Tamil: பிரித்தானிய இலங்கை, Birithaniya Ilangai) was a British Crown colony between 1815 and 1948.

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Buddy Bolden

Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden (September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931) was an African-American cornetist who was regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of rag-time music, or "jass", which later came to be known as jazz.

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Canada Reads

Canada Reads is an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Canada's public broadcaster, the CBC.

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Chandrika Kumaratunga

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරතුංග,சந்திரிகா பண்டாரநாயக்க குமாரதுங்க; born 29 June 1945) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the fifth President of Sri Lanka, from 12 November 1994 to 19 November 2005.

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Charlie Hebdo

Charlie Hebdo (French for Charlie Weekly) is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes.

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Charlie Hebdo shooting

On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30 local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

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Christopher Ondaatje

Sir Philip Christopher Ondaatje, OC, CBE, Hon.

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Coach House Books

Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publishing company located in Toronto, Ontario.

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Colombo

Colombo (translit,; translit) is the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.

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Coming Through Slaughter

Coming Through Slaughter is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by House of Anansi in 1976.

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D. G. Jones

Douglas Gordon "D.

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Daniel Brooks

Daniel Brooks (born 23 June 1958) is a Canadian theatre director, actor and playwright.

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David Young (Canadian playwright)

David Samuel D'Arcy Young (born 17 July 1946 Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, and screenwriter.

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Divisadero (novel)

Divisadero is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, first published on April 17, 2007 by McClelland and Stewart.

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Dulwich College

Dulwich College is a boarding and day independent school for boys in Dulwich in southeast London, England.

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Dutch people

The Dutch (Dutch), occasionally referred to as Netherlanders—a term that is cognate to the Dutch word for Dutch people, "Nederlanders"—are a Germanic ethnic group native to the Netherlands.

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E. J. Bellocq

John Ernest Joseph Bellocq (1873–1949) was an American professional photographer who worked in New Orleans during the early 20th century.

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Esta Spalding

Esta Alice Spalding is a Canadian author, screenwriter and poet who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2000 for Lost August.

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George Bowering

George Harry Bowering, (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer.

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Giller Prize

The Giller Prize (sponsored as the Scotiabank Giller Prize), is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries.

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Glendon College

Glendon College (Collège universitaire Glendon) is a federated campus of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Governor General of Canada

The Governor General of Canada (Gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal viceregal representative of the.

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Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

The Governor General's Award for English-language fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a fiction book written in English.

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Governor General's Awards

The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields.

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Griffin Poetry Prize

The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.

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Gulf Coast (magazine)

Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts is a literary magazine from Houston, Texas.

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In the Skin of a Lion

In the Skin of a Lion is a novel by Canadian–Sri Lankan writer Michael Ondaatje.

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Kim Ondaatje

Kim Ondaatje (also known as Betty Jane Kimbark; born October 2, 1928) is a Canadian painter, photographer, and documentary filmmaker.

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Lennoxville, Quebec

Lennoxville is an arrondissement, or borough, of the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.

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Linda Spalding

Linda Spalding (née Dickinson) (born 25 June 1943) is a Canadian writer and editor.

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List of Companions of the Order of Canada

Companions of the Order of Canada, the highest level of the Order of Canada, have demonstrated the highest degree of merit to Canada and humanity, on the national or international scene.

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London, Ontario

London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor.

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Mavis Gallant

Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant,, née Young (11 August 1922 – 18 February 2014), was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France.

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Michael Helm

Michael Helm is a Canadian novelist.

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Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill (born 12 June 1966) is an American-born Canadian poet, playwright and novelist.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.

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Ondaatje Letters

The Ondaatje Letters (1729-1737), are the earliest examples of private correspondence in Tamil prose and most probably in any languages of South Asia.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Order of Canada

The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian national order and the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.

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Orders, decorations, and medals of Sri Lanka

The Sri Lankan national honours system is a fully indigenous honours system of titles, decorations and medals which are awarded to recognize achievements of, or service by, Sri Lankans or others in connection with Sri Lanka.

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Pearl Ondaatje

Pearl Ondaatje was a pioneer of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia.

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PEN American Center

PEN American Center (PEN), founded in 1922 and based in New York City, works to advance literature, defend free expression, and foster international literary fellowship.

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PEN World Voices

PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature was launched in 2005.

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Prix Médicis

The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November.

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Purdue University Press

Purdue University Press, founded in 1960, is a university press that is part of Purdue University.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Queen's University

Queen's University at Kingston (commonly shortened to Queen's University or Queen's) is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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Radio National

ABC Radio National, known on-air as RN, is an Australia-wide Public Service Broadcasting radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Ramona Koval

Ramona Koval (born 1954, Melbourne) is an Australian broadcaster, writer and journalist.

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Running in the Family (memoir)

Running in the Family is a fictionalized memoir, written in post-modern style involving aspects of magic realism, by Michael Ondaatje.

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Russell Banks

Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry.

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Salon (website)

Salon is an American news and opinion website, created by David Talbot in 1995 and currently owned by the Salon Media Group.

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Sinhalese people

The Sinhalese (Sinhala: සිංහල ජාතිය Sinhala Jathiya, also known as Hela) are an Indo-Aryan-speaking ethnic group native to the island of Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Sri Lankan Chetties

Sri Lankan Chetties also known as Colombo Chetties, is an ethnicity in the island of Sri Lanka.

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St. Louis Literary Award

The St.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St.

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Stratford, Ontario

Stratford is a city on the Avon River in Perth County in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a population of 31,465 in 2016 in a land area of 28.28 square kilometres.

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Tamils

The Tamil people, also known as Tamilar, Tamilans, or simply Tamils, are a Dravidian ethnic group who speak Tamil as their mother tongue and trace their ancestry to the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian Union territory of Puducherry, or the Northern, Eastern Province and Puttalam District of Sri Lanka.

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The Book Show

The Book Show was an Australian ABC radio program for the discussion of everything relating to the written word.

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The Cat's Table

The Cat's Table is a novel by Canadian author Michael Ondaatje first published in 2011.

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The Cinnamon Peeler

The Cinnamon Peeler is a lyric poem by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje.

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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems is a verse novel by Michael Ondaatje, published in 1970.

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The English Patient

The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje.

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The English Patient (film)

The English Patient is a 1996 American romantic war drama film directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje and produced by Saul Zaentz.

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The Lodger (2009 film)

The Lodger is a 2009 mystery/thriller film directed by David Ondaatje and starring Alfred Molina, Hope Davis and Simon Baker.

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Theatre Passe Muraille

Theatre Passe Muraille is a theatre company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Book Awards

The Toronto Book Awards are Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the City of Toronto to the author of the year's best fiction or non-fiction book or books "that are evocative of Toronto".

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Tulane University

Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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University of Toronto

The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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University of Western Ontario

The University of Western Ontario (UWO), corporately branded as Western University as of 2012 and commonly shortened to Western, is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada.

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Walter Murch

Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an American film editor and sound designer.

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Warlight

Warlight is a 2018 novel by Canadian author Michael Ondaatje.

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York University

York University (Université York) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje

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