21. Borzoi Reader | Catalog | Divisadero By Michael Ondaatje With this elegant, singular book, michael ondaatje proves that it is not too brilliant a lodestar to shove straight into the heart of a novel.” http://www.randomhouse.com/features/ondaatje/

Borzoi News Nature (new!) Poetry Recipes arts biographies classics classic poetry ... travel writing Divisadero Written by Michael Ondaatje Fiction Hardcover May 2007 From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. Divisadero Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters, Divisadero Divisadero Divisadero extends the liberating and original territory of that earlier triumph [ The English Patient New York Review of Books Divisadero Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Minneapolis Star-Tribune Divisadero London Free Press (Ontario) Divisadero Divisadero Chronicle Herald (Halifax) " Divisadero Bookforum New York Times Book Review Divisadero, the more it gives in return . . . Mr. Ondaatje does not write in mundanely linear ways, nor does he see events as isolated instances. There are always webs of memory, slips of time and divisions in experience to break the spell of an ordinary world . . . Divisadero has a highly literary sensibility . . . Anna finds meaning in her own life by plumbing the history of Lucien, now a famous dead literary figure[;] trust Mr. Ondaatje to express [this] exquisitely . . . Since Mr. Ondaatje writes with such grace, he brings a haunting, sensual delicacy to this latter part of Divisadero New York Times Sunday Star-Ledger Divisadero Atlanta Journal-Constitution Bloomberg News Divisadero , the new novel by Michael Ondaatje . . . Ondaatje expertly shift[s] into different voices and tenses, disrupting the conventional chronology with the easy grace that has become his hallmark . . . There are countless examples of perfect phrasing in

22. Emory University Postcolonial Studies michael ondaatje was born on September 12, 1943 in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri . Introduction by michael ondaatje. New York Hyperion Miramax Books, 1996. http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Ondaat.html

Michael Ondaatje Biography Ondaatje was educated initially at St. Thomas College in Colombo, Ceylon. After moving with his mother to England, he continued his education at Dulwich College in London. Between 1962-64, Ondaatje attended Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec. He then went on to obtain his B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1965, and his M.A. at Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario, in 1967. Ondaatje began his teaching career at the University of Western Ontario, London between 1967-71. Today he is a member of the Department of English at Glendon College, York University in Toronto, Ontario, a position he has held since 1971. Ondaatje currently resides in Toronto with his wife, novelist/editor Linda Spalding, where they edit Literary Magazine . During his career Ondaatje has received numerous awards and honors. He was awarded the Ralph Gustafson Award, 1965; the Epstein Award, 1966; and the President's Medal from the University of Ontario in 1967. In addition, Ondaatje was the recipient of the Canadian Governor-General's Award for Literature in 1971 and again in 1980. Also in 1980 he was awarded the Canada-Australia price and in 1992 he was presented with the Booker McConnell Prize for his novel The English Patient Themes To date, Ondaatje is the author of numerous novels, poems, plays, and an assortment of pieces in literary criticism. Though frequently distinguished for his literary works, Ondaatje's 1992 novel

23. Michael Ondaatje ★ Steven Barclay Agency michael ondaatje Steven Barclay Agency represents some of our culture s most important and thought-provoking voices. For lectures, readings, workshops, http://www.barclayagency.com/ondaatje.html

Speaker Menu Russell Banks A. S. Byatt Michael Chabon Billy Collins Bernard Cooper Michael Cunningham Anne Fadiman Jonathan Franzen Ira Glass Terry Gross Daniel Handler Robert Hass Seamus Heaney Jane Hirshfield Elizabeth Kolbert Tony Kushner Jhumpa Lahiri Anne Lamott Barry Lopez Armistead Maupin Frances Mayes Alexander McCall Smith W.S. Merwin Anchee Min Azar Nafisi Kathleen Norris Naomi Shihab Nye Sharon Olds Mary Oliver Michael Ondaatje Suzan-Lori Parks Robert Pinsky David Rakoff Adrienne Rich Frank Rich Luis Rodriguez Mark Salzman Robert Sapolsky Marjane Satrapi Orville Schell Alice Sebold David Sedaris Maurice Sendak Scott Simon Art Spiegelman Amy Tan Sarah Vowell Chris Ware Terry Tempest Williams home Best-selling Author of The English Patient and Divisadero The English Patient Ondaatje is himself an interesting intersection of cultures. Born in Sri Lanka, the former Ceylon, of Indian/Dutch ancestry, he went to school in England, and then moved to Canada. He is now a Canadian citizen. From the memoir of his childhood, Running in the Family , to his classic novel, The English Patient Booker Prize He is the author of four collections of poetry including The Cinnamon Peeler and most recently

24. 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 http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/ondaatje.html

By Anthony N. Chandler Michael Ondaatje "... they were made with the lens wide open" The role of a camera is to capture the light and movement of a moment onto film; the role of an author is to capture the immensity of life's moments onto text. 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. Ondaatje, the man, is a mystery. Seldom seen pumping the media for fame, he appears to be a Wizard of Oz who guards his public image quite carefully. Certainly, one can never tell if he consciously plays with scholars for mockery or for the love of the game in either outcome the chase is sweet for all who engage in the self-allusions and breadcrumb clues he leaves in his wake. While achieving international recognition with the success of the film adaptation of his 1992 novel , The English Patient , Ondaatje did not sacrifice his artistry for the demands of the public. Indeed, Handwriting was a return to both the lush, careful poetry and the images from Ceylon found in

25. Centre For Language And Literature - Canadian Writers - Michael Ondaatje - Athab Born in Sri Lanka in 1943, michael ondaatje immigrated with his mother, brother and sister to England in 1952. He followed his brother to Canada in 1962, http://www.athabascau.ca/writers/ondaatje.html

Athabasca University. Canada's Open University. Navigation Skip Navigation Language and Literature Contact Faculty ... English Language Studies Michael Ondaatje Born in Sri Lanka in 1943, Michael Ondaatje immigrated with his mother, brother and sister to England in 1952. He followed his brother to Canada in 1962, and attended Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1965, and his M.A. from Queen's University in 1967. He has taught at a variety of institutions, including the University of Western Ontario, York University, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Brown University and the University of Toronto. Michael Ondaatje is probably best known for his work The English Patient (1992) which was adapted to an Academy Award winning movie. He started with poetry in 1967 publishing Dainty Monsters . In the title, we already see how Ondaatje enjoys juxtaposing opposite images, and as a result explores these seemingly incongruent ideas, a trait that links almost all of his works. His serial poem the man with seven toes (1969) was inspired by paintings by an Australian artist, and a true story of a woman living among the Aborigines after a shipwreck. This interest in historical fragments and visual arts have become signatures of Ondaatje's writing. Both the collection of poems

26. Michael Ondaatje Writer The English Patient. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648546/

Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP MICHAEL... DVD VHS CD IMDb Michael Ondaatje Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes by TV series awards titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with tv schedule biography other works publicity contact news articles Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips Michael Ondaatje advertisement photos board add contact details Photos Add photo(s) and resume with IMDb Resume Services Overview Date of Birth: 12 September Colombo, Ceylon. [now Sri Lanka] more Trivia: Father was Dutch; Mother was Ceylonese. more Awards: more Filmography Jump to filmography as: Writer Director Editor Producer ... Self Michael Ondaatje has 1 in-development credit available on IMDbPro.com. To view these credits click here Writer: Shadow Pleasures (2004) (TV) (writer) Elimination Dance (1998) (story) The English Patient (1996) (novel) The Offering (1966) (additional dialogue) Shadow Pleasures (2004) (TV) (script writer) Gambling, Gods and LSD

27. Featured Author: Michael Ondaatje The playwright michael ondaatje is a young Canadian poet and film maker, and in fact this Billy the Kid began as a poem and in 1970 . http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/14/specials/ondaatje.html

Featured Author: Michael Ondaatje With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times In This Feature Reviews of Michael Ondaatje's Earlier Books Articles About Michael Ondaatje Related Links Janet Maslin Reviews 'Anil's Ghost' (May 11, 2000) Richard Eder Reviews 'Anil's Ghost' (May 14, 2000) First Chapter: 'Anil's Ghost' Audio Michael Ondaatje Reads From 'The English Patient' at the 92nd St. Y (April 8, 1996). Running time: 9 minutes. Peter Paterson/Knopf REVIEWS OF MICHAEL ONDAATJE'S EARLIER BOOKS: Coming Through Slaughter The Collected Works of Billy the Kid "Ondaatje is a poet and even his prose moves with rhythmic, circular precision. . . . This is a good little book, carefully crafted and thoroughly literate. But it is a 'little' book, a portrait in miniature, and eventually limited by Billy's own character." There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to Do "This is a poetry filled with odd angles of vision, but it lacks the kind of spectral music it seems to need. It's a poetry that mixes the bizarre and commonplace, but its accents are prosaic . . . But there is a yearning for wonder in this poetry, and a curiosity that informs the imaginative life of his poetry at its best." Secular Love ". . . persistently and often intelligently obsessed with art. . . . Mr. Ondaatje is an oddity a passionate intellect and his book is alternatingly exasperating and beautiful."

28. Michael Ondaatje: An Overview michael ondaatje An Overview. Biographical Materials. Biography; Chronology; Critical Reception; Works. Anil s Ghost Discussions; The Cinnamon Peeler s http://www.usp.nus.edu.sg/post/canada/literature/ondaatje/ondaatjeov.html

Michael Ondaatje: An Overview Biographical Materials Biography Chronology Critical Reception Works Anil's Ghost Discussions The Cinnamon Peeler's Wife and Other Poems Responses in Prose and Verse Coming Through Slaughter Discussions The English Patient Discussions In the Skin of a Lion Discussions Running in the Family Discussion Contextual Materials Political and Social Contexts Identity, nation, and Gender The English Patient , "History," and the Other Builders of Toronto in ... Anil's Ghost Religion and Philosophy Representations of Buddhism in Anil's Ghost Literary Relations Virtual Spaces of Postcoloniality: Rushdie and Ondaatje Caryl Phillips and Ondaatje Self-conscious Use of sources in In the Skin of a Lion History Redefining Toronto's History in In the Skin of a Lion Oral History and the Writing of the Other in Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion Theme and Technique Setting Characterization Plot and Structure Circular narration in In the Skin of a Lion The English Patient and Altered States of Narrative Style, Genre, and Mode Meta-fiction in In the Skin of a Lion Image, Symbol, and Motif The desert The Motif of the Collector and History in Ondaatje's Work Theme and Subject Decentering Official History in In the Skin of a Lion Historical Obliviousness in In the Skin of a Lion ... and Rewriting History Related Web Resources A Selected Bibliography of Critical Work about Michael Ondaatje CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal Michael Ondaatje (Boston University site) Last modified 12 August 2004

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31. Who's michael ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka in 1943. michael ondaatje c/o Glendon College, English Department, 2275 Bayview Ave. , Toronto, ON, M5N 3M6. http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/ondaatje.htm

Michael Ondaatje Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka in 1943. He moved to Canada in 1962, and became a Canadian citizen. He teaches at Glendon College, York University. His films include Sons of Captain Poetry (about bpNichol) and The Clinton Special (about Theatre Passe Muraille). Awards Governor General's Award for Poetry, 1970, 1979. Governor General's Award for Fiction, 1992; finalist, 1987. Booker Prize, 1992. Trillium Award, finalist, 1999. Selected Publications There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning To Do: Poems 1963-1978 Running in the Family Secular Love . (Coach House Press, 1984). In the Skin of a Lion Brushes With Greatness: An Anthology of Chance Encounters with Greatness . (Coach House Press, 1989). The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems. The Dainty Monsters . (Coach House Press, 1992). From Ink Lake. The English Patient. Handwriting. Books in Print Ondaatje, Michael Brushes With Greatness: An Anthology of Chance Encounters with Greatness. Coach House Press, 1989. $16.95 ISBN: 0-88910-349-6. Coming Through Slaughter (fiction). Anansi, 1976. $16.95 ISBN: 0-88784-052-3 (hb); $12.95 ISBN: 0-88784-517-7 (pb).

32. Michael Ondaatje Life Stories, Books, & Links Stories about michael ondaatje s life and Anil s Ghost, In the Skin of a Lion, The Cinnamon Peeler Selected Poems, Billy the Kid, The English Patient. http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/michael.ondaatje.asp

TABLE OF CONTENTS Michael Ondaatje - Life Stories, Books, and Links Biographical Information Stories about Michael Ondaatje Selected works by this author Selected books about / related to this author ... Recommended links BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Michael Ondaatje Category: Sri Lankan, Canadian Literature Born: 1943 Colombo, Sri Lanka Related authors: Billy the Kid Derek Walcott list all writers Michael Ondaatje - LIFE STORIES Billy the Kid, by Ondaatje, O. Henry... On this day in 1881 Billy the Kid was killed by his nemesis, Pat Garrett, at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Near midnight, the Kid returned from an errand of love or hunger to find someone in his hideout; to his hushed "Quien es? Quien es?," Billy received a fatal shot above the heart. This was also the starting pistol for a fiction marathon which shows no signs of being over. . . . Ondaatje, Sri Lanka, Family On this day in 1943 Michael Ondaatje was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Ondaatje left Ceylon at the age of eleven, for England and then Canada. Much of his earliest work couldn't have been more Western in topic or setting Billy the Kid, jazz, Toronto but several of Ondaatje's books look homeward, one of them his 1982 Running in the Family.

33. BookPage Interview May 2000: Michael Ondaatje Like an archaeologist delving into the earth, unsure of what he ll find, Toronto author michael ondaatje immerses himself in the writing process. http://www.bookpage.com/0005bp/michael_ondaatje.html

Anil's Ghost By Michael Ondaatje Alfred A. Knopf, $25 ISBN 0375410538 Buy or borrow this book! Support your local independent bookseller Find it in a WorldCat library Compare prices at major online bookstores Audio: Alfred A. Knopf, $29.95 ISBN 0375415661 Buy or borrow this book! Support your local independent bookseller Find it in a WorldCat library Compare prices at major online bookstores Look who's talking in BookPage! Dave Barry Ben Bova Helen Gurley Brown Larry Brown ... Andrew Weil Children's Authors Arlene Alda Graeme Base John Bemelmans Marciano Stan and Jan Berenstain ... Lori Aurelia Williams New discoveries from the author of The English Patient INTERVIEW BY ELLEN KANNER Like an archaeologist delving into the earth, unsure of what he'll find, Toronto author Michael Ondaatje immerses himself in the writing process. "I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out," he said. He knows in time, all will become clear. "It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing." What he's unearthed in his gripping new book

34. New York State Writers Institute - Michael Ondaatje And Linda Spalding Although best known as a novelist, michael ondaatje s work also encompasses memoir, poetry and film, and reveals a passion for defying conventional form. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/ondaatje.html

Michael Ondaatje March 2, 2000 (Thurs) 8:00 p.m. Reading Page Hall 4:00 p.m. Seminar, Recital Hall THE ENGLISH PATIENT Screening March 1, 2000 (Wed) 7:00 p.m., Page Hall Linda Spalding Although best known as a novelist, Michael Ondaatje 's work also encompasses memoir, poetry and film, and reveals a passion for defying conventional form. His landmark novel, The English Patient (1992) won a Canadian Governor General's award for fiction and was selected as co-winner of the Booker Prize, The British Commonwealth's most prestigious literary awardthe first and only such honor to be bestowed on a Canadian writer. Later made into the Academy Award-winning filmhe explores the history of people history does not explore, intersecting four diverse lives at the end of World War II. Handwriting In the Skin of the Lion (1987), which deals with the haves-and-have-nots in 1920s and 30s Toronto; and Coming Through Slaughter (1976), which fictionalizes the life of jazz musician Buddy Bolden. Running in the Family (1980), which has been called "an autobiographical quest through memory and the tangled scandals and legends of family and a lost colonial world." His interest in crossing genres and forms is best exemplified in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid , a critically acclaimed work which mixes prose, poetry and fictional interviews, which earned him another Canadian Governor-General's Award in 1970.

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Quillblog Book reviews Kids' books Author profiles ... Directories Archive for the 'Michael Ondaatje' Category Event Photos: Giller time As you may have heard, the annual Scotiabank Giller Prize was handed out last night. will have a full report on the evening on our News page Above: Authors Linda Spalding and Michael Ondaatje. Email or share this post Posted by Nathan Whitlock on November 7, 2007 Filed under: Giller Michael Ondaatje Photos Awards ... Giller shortlist sales statistics According to just-released statistics from BookNet Canada, the shortlist announcement for the Scotiabank Giller Prize sparked a sales spike that averaged a 388% increase in weekly sales for the listed titles. In the week ending October 14, 2007, A Secret Between Us by Daniel Poliquin saw the highest percent increase at 1200%, followed by Effigy by Alyssa York with 564%. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje and The Assassin’s Song by M.J. Vassanji, already selling at a robust rate before the shortlist announcement, increased by 83% and 70% respectively, while Elizabeth Hay’s Late Nights on Air has seen a 22% bump in sales.

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37. Michael Ondaatje - The New York Review Of Books Bibliography of books and articles by michael ondaatje, from The New York Review of Books. http://www.nybooks.com/authors/853

Home Your account Current issue Archives ... NYR Books Michael Ondaatje Michael Ondaatje Michael Ondaatje's novels are Coming Through Slaughter, In the Skin of a Lion, The English Patient , and Anil's Ghost . His books of poetry include The Cinnamon Peeler and Handwriting . His most recent book is The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film . He lives in Toronto, Canada. From the Review February 15, 1996 The Case of Wei Jingsheng (letter) April 12, 1990 Help Salman Rushdie! (letter) From New York Review Books Paris Stories Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once intimate and panoramic, of modern times. Home Your account Current issue Archives ... NYR Books Please contact with any questions about this site. The cover date of the next issue will be February 28, 2008.

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39. LRB · Brian Dillon: Onion-Pilfering There is an almost mythological necessity about the narrative setup of michael ondaatje’s novel. A sexual relationship develops between Coop and Anna; http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n24/dill01_.html

Skip navigation HOME SUBSCRIBE LOG IN ... ACCESSIBILITY Search the LRB All the words Exact phrase advanced search SUBSCRIBER REGISTRATION Subscribers to the LRB currently get free access to the full content of the magazine in an online edition. If you are a subscriber and would like to register for online access click here If you are already registered you can log in from our login page If you would like further information about subscribing to the LRB click here. LRB 13 December 2007 Brian Dillon print layout tell a friend Onion-Pilfering Brian Dillon Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje Buy this book On the Petaluma Road, in the former Gold Rush territory of Northern California, a man inherits a farm, marries a miner’s daughter called Lydia Mendez and adopts a four-year-old boy from a neighbouring farm, whose parents have been murdered by a farm hand. His wife dies giving birth to their daughter, Anna. He leaves the hospital with two girls: the second, Claire, is the daughter of another mother who has died in childbirth. He raises all three children as his own and now and then, Anna later remembers, embraces them ‘as any father would’. The boy, Coop, however, begins to move away in adolescence, restoring an old cabin nearby that belonged to his adoptive grandfather, and dreaming of the gold that might still be found in the riverbeds. He becomes ever more distant, and more fascinating, to Claire and Anna. There is an almost mythological necessity about the narrative set-up of Michael Ondaatje’s novel. A sexual relationship develops between Coop and Anna; they are discovered by the father, who viciously beats his adopted son and drives away with Anna, leaving Claire to nurse the injured Coop in the middle of an ice storm. The mythic structure of this opening section announces a simple narrative schema: the dispersed characters’ lives will be shaped by this unprocessed trauma, and the biographies of all those drawn into their orbit will similarly turn out to be haunted by episodes of violence of which they cannot speak. It makes for a consistent tone, with long stretches of meaningful miscommunication between characters, punctuated here and there by catastrophe, and by the third-person narrator’s timely but strangely vacuous interjections: ‘Will these children, in their eventual cities, turn out to be the heroes of their own lives?’

40. Michael Ondaatje Quotes 28 quotes and quotations by michael ondaatje. michael ondaatje As a writer, one is busy with archaeology. michael ondaatje http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/michael_ondaatje.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Michael Ondaatje Quotes Type: Author Quotes Category: Canadian Author Quotes Date of Birth: September 12 Nationality: Canadian Find on Amazon: Michael Ondaatje Related Authors: Larry Wall A. E. van Vogt John Ralston Saul Jane Rule ... Gabrielle Roy A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. Michael Ondaatje As a writer, one is busy with archaeology. Michael Ondaatje I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out. Michael Ondaatje I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. Michael Ondaatje I grew up in a country that was very different - the germs of racism were there then, I just wasn't aware of it. Michael Ondaatje I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door. Michael Ondaatje I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me. Michael Ondaatje I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries. Michael Ondaatje In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

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