MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of seven novels, a memoir, Running in the Family, a nonfiction book on film, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, and several books of poetry, including The Cinnamon Peeler and Handwriting. Among other accolades, The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018, and was made into a film by Anthony Minghella; Anil’s Ghost was awarded the Giller Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.
