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 | | Ondaatje, Michael, poet, novelist, filmmaker, editor (b at Colombo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka] 12 Sept 1943). | | | Ondaatje edited a collection about animals, The Broken Ark: A Book of Beasts (1971). | | | Set in Tuscany, Italy, at the end of World War II, readers are held fascinated by both the present dramatic circumstances and astonishing pasts of the characters in this epic tale of the physical and emotional damage inflicted by war and love. |
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http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0005927
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| | Untitled Document |
| | Ondaatje used the comedy of Mervyn to dissolve the connection of the Mervyn and Michael. | | | Mervyn Ondaatje is first introduced to the story as a young man who has many situations that seem to be humorous that happen throughout his lifetime. | | | Almost throughout the whole story we are given information that portrays Michael’s father to be a drunk that is self-centered who is unstable, but now with this turning point in the story the reader sees that his father is a respectable man when he is sober. |
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http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~waddington/spring309/vmrhetoricalanalysis.html
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| | Memory, Identity and Empire in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family |
| | While Ondaatje notes in passing early on in his autobiography that the Ondaatje’s have a “weakness for pretending to be ‘English,’” he misses the extent to which his own text mimics English autobiography. | | | I don’t mean to be implying that Ondaatje ought to admit to making some kind of mistake in coming to the west, or that in his text he ought to plead guilty to allowing himself to be co-opted by the culture and politics of the west. | | | Where in other sections of the book Ondaatje’s literary references unselfconsciously reinforce his own identification with the literary culture of the west, he begins this section of his autobiography with a representative set of derogatory quotes about Ceylon/Sri Lanka from Edward Lear, D.H. Lawrence, and Leonard Woolf. |
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http://home.comcast.net/~jay.paul/ondaatje.htm
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| | Seattle Arts & Lectures - Michael Ondaatje |
| | Michael Ondaatje is a literary phenomenon—he’s a gifted poet, a bestselling novelist and has also made it in Hollywood. | | | The book is the closest Ondaatje has come to conventional prose, yet shares much in common with his earlier, more experimental works with poetic prose. | | | His experimentation with poetic form in fiction began with his first novel, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970). |
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http://www.lectures.org/ondaatje.html
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| | BookPage Interview May 2000: Michael Ondaatje |
| | Ondaatje's depiction of Anil's painstaking work reading the bones of the dead is as haunting as it is true to life. | | | Anil and her archaeologist partner Sarath aren't the only of Ondaatje's characters to descend into the earth. | | | But the darkest Greek tragedies were innocent compared to what was happening here." Anil, who has lived abroad for 15 years, returns to her old home as a forensic anthropologist on a human rights mission to find, examine, and identify the bones of the Disappeared. |
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http://www.bookpage.com/0005bp/michael_ondaatje.html
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| | On The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - Lydia Eugene |
| | Ondaatje emphasizes the danger posed by the artificer by likening Billy to mythic Icarus, son of Daedalus: | | | Ondaatje produces this correlation by repetitive use of the words "clear" and "pure" when describing interiors as well as when depicting Billy's physical vision. | | | Ondaatje's language entices the reader's continued attention through its compelling movement between the familiar or prosaic and the iconographic. |
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http://maclawran.ca/sean/bunny/b01/ess/le-billy.html
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| | Ondaatje's concern with the historicity of his novel is evident on a different level too: After I had begun my research on Almásy in early 1993, I wrote a letter to the author asking him about his knowledge of the "English patient," Almásy. | | | While this observation is written with reference to Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970) and Coming through Slaughter (1976), it applies to The English Patient as well. | | | in Ondaatje's writing is that possibility of history raised in an awakened voice that was left in the dark in the dominant texts of history" (Siemerling 180-81; my translation). |
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http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-4/totosy99-2.html
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| | Amazon.com: Running in the Family (Vintage International): Books: Michael Ondaatje |
| | Michael Ondaatje has depicted his extraordinary family, who delighted in masks and costumes and love affairs that ‘rainbowed over marriages’ in the kind of language that makes glory of their lives. | | | Ondaatje generously included several of his poems in the middle of the book. | | | By focusing himself merely on a problems of his own, of a personal character in every (which, of course, includes this one)book, he voluntarily forgets that there is other life, other world going around him. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679746692?v=glance
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| | Kiriyama Prize - Special - A Conversation with Michael Ondaatje |
| | Ondaatje: One of the complicated virtues of books is that you and I do not read a book in the same way. | | | He wrote, "It is Ondaatje's extraordinary achievement to use magic in order to make the blood of his own country real." In that sense this is probably a very important book for you. | | | Ondaatje (laughing): I think that is a perfect summary of my life. |
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http://www.kiriyamaprize.org/winners/2000/2000ondaat_interview.shtml
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| | 100 Canadian Poets - Michael Ondaatje - Profile |
| | "Michael Ondaatje and the Problem of History." CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy 19.2 (1990): 97-110. | | | Mukherjee, Arun P. "The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje and Cyril Dabydeen: Two Responses to Otherness." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 20.1 (1985): 49-67. | | | The Collected works of Billy the Kid shared the Governor General's award for poetry in 1970 with bpNichol's The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid and three other Nichol texts. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/m_ondaatje.htm
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| | Powells.com Interviews - Michael Ondaatje |
| | Ondaatje marries poetic instincts with narrative devices like no other novelist writing in English today. | | | Ondaatje: No. When I was writing Billy the Kid, all I had was the question, How do I write this book? | | | When I was writing this book, the books I didn't read were all those forensics books, all those thrillers surrounding us. |
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http://www.powells.com/authors/ondaatje.html
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| | Enough About Me #18: In Which the Author, Michael Ondaatje, Diana Abu-Jaber and a Host of Others Discuss the Seven ... |
| | Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient and Anil’s Ghost, says that the worst review he ever received was for a stage adaptation of his book The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. | | | Michael Ondaatje’s favorite review was one for his novel Coming Through Slaughter, which was labeled “the worst book on jazz since Charles Mingus’s Beneath the Underdog.” Turns out that Ondaatje loved Mingus’s book (I do too, by the way). | | | Enough About Me #18: In Which the Author, Michael Ondaatje, Diana Abu-Jaber and a Host of Others Discuss the Seven Deadly Sins of Critics (and by 'Deadly,' We Don't Necessarily Mean Bad) |
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http://www.bookstandard.com/bookstandard/community/commentary_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000991819
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| | Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Michael Ondaatje |
| | A haunting tale of passion, privilege and biting physical labour, of men and women moved by compassion and driven by the power of dreams — sometimes even to murder. | | | Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost–great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission. | | | Four years later, in 1996, a motion picture based on the book brought the story to... |
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http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=22801
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| | My lesson on Hemingway |
| | I love him and I abhor him," Ondaatje continues. | | | He was arguing with his alter ego throughout this book. | | | I delve into the personal inspiration behind the story. |
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http://ca.geocities.com/dunnsharon@rogers.com/post/ondaatje2.html
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| | Salon Michael Ondaatje |
| | who marvel at the luxurious energy of Michael Ondaatje's imagination, the muscular exuberance of his storytelling, the gem-like intelligence of his language, may not be surprised to learn that his own family history has been as fantastic as his prose. | | | This is an element that has nothing to do with the film, it's only in the book. | | | Let me ask you about the genesis of "The English Patient." I was curious how it came into being. |
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http://www.salon.com/nov96/ondaatje961118.html
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| | TomFolio.com: by Michael Ondaatje |
| | SIGNED by Ondaatje in ink on the title page over his name. | | | SIGNED by Ondaatje in ink on the title page. | | | Ondaatje, Michael THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BILLY THE KID Wingbow, 1979, First Wingbow Press Edition Printed in May 1979, pic wraps NF(touch of bump), CANADIAN POETRY |
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http://www.tomfolio.com/SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Michael_Ondaatje
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| | Michael Ondaatje ★ Steven Barclay Agency |
| | “Each of [Ondaatje’s] books is filled with passages of such finesse and vividness that they become part of us. | | | His works of fiction include Anil's Ghost, The English Patient, In the Skin of the Lion, Coming Through Slaughter, and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. | | | And having won the British Commonwealth’s highest honor — the Booker Prize — he has taken his rightful place as a contemporary literary treasure. |
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http://www.barclayagency.com/ondaatje.html
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| | Amie R. Colonna's Casa Azul: Michael Ondaatje--book reviews & links |
| | Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje trace's Billy's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. | | | The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder. | | | This is truly an amazing book that views the legendary "outlaw saint" with empathetic eyes. |
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http://www.slackers.net/~amie/ondaatje.html
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| | Review Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje |
| | Anil's Ghost is a small, sudden glimpse into the soul of award-winning poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje. | | | With Anil's Ghost, Ondaatje has abandoned some of the dense, lush prose. | | | While his trademark poetic language remains, more dialogue and straight away narrative are included through this latest novel. |
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http://www.janmag.com/fiction/anilsghost.html
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| | RIT - News & Events: Common Novel program to feature Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje |
| | "Ondaatje drew from The Epic of Gilgamesh from 2,000 B.C. Babylonia, where the metaphorical lion's skin comes from," she adds. | | | With In the Skin of a Lion, the author examines an historical theme of unsung and abused working class people, many of them immigrants, explains Sandra Saari, chair of Language and Literature and coordinator of the Common Novel program. | | | He will talk about his 1987 novel In the Skin of a Lion—RIT's chosen 199698 "must read" book for freshmen and sophomores. |
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http://www.rit.edu/~930www/NewsEvents/1997/Jan01/common.html
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| | Books at Book Clubs Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje |
| | First published in 1976, Coming Through Slaughter is one of the best loved of Michael Ondaatje's novels. | | | We hope they will give you a number of interesting angles from which to consider this lively, haunting and seductive novel. | | | Why do you think he chose this way of telling his story? |
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http://www.bookclubs.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0676971768&view=rg
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| | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes! |
| | These questions and discussion topics are offered to enhance your discussion of this book. | | | When In the Skin of a Lion was published in 1987, Carolyn Kizer, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Ondaatje "a beautiful writer... | | | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje: Book reviews, book club recommendations and recipes! |
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http://www.wutheringbites.com/Read/bookpage2.asp?BookID=127
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| | Films by Michael Ondaatje |
| | Michael Ondaatje’s books include “Anil's Ghost”, “In the Skin of a Lion”, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and “Running in the Family”. | | | Carry on Crime and Punishment (1970, 5 mins.), Ondaatje’s whimsical slapstick 'docu-drama' follows a couple of crooked Canadian Poets who try to kidnap a dog. | | | Ondaatje captures the artist/writer and sound performer and uncovers what made him influence a generation of North American and European poets and writers. |
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http://www.mongrelmedia.com/films/Ondaatje.html
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| | Amie R. Colonna's Casa Azul: Michael Ondaatje--reviews and links page 2 |
| | This book is a masterful blend of prose and poetry and a must read for the Ondaatje fan. | | | There are wonderful anecdotes about his parent's courtship (a story so amazing it would make for an excellent novel in itself) and Ondaatje's feelings on returning to Ceylon. | | | Ondaatje gives us Bolden's two women with equal sympathy as well as the man (Webb) who is sent to track Bolden down when he doesn't come home. |
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http://www.slackers.net/~amie/ondaatje02.html
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| | Powell's Books - Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje |
| | "Michael Ondaatje's poems read with the same whimsical precision and authority one finds in his prose. | | | The English Patient made a second run up international bestseller lists and, today, is widely considered one of the best novels of the decade. | | | However, many of the most dedicated fans of Ondaatje's novels fail to realize that he is primarily a poet; Ondaatje had published five collections of poetry before his first work of fiction. |
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http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=0-0771068778-0
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| | Historical Obliviousness in Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion" |
| | Ondaatje's characters comprise a polyphony of voices; even if not all the characters are narrators of their own stories, the reader gets to know their perspectives. | | | Like Phillips' novel, Ondaatje's has a circular quality that makes stories transcend time and space; In the Skin of the Lion ends where it starts. | | | Similar to Crossing the River, there is a framework story, that of a man telling a story to a girl, that opens and ends the novel and gives coherence to the many personal narratives. |
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http://www.postcolonialweb.org/canada/literature/ondaatje/gms4.html
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| | Amazon.ca: In the Skin of a Lion: Books |
| | From the jazz obsessions of Buddy Bolden in Coming Through Slaughter to the ministrations of the physician Gamini in Anil's Ghost and the craftperson's shared curiosity in The Conversations, Michael Ondaatje has always been a poet of work as much as love, and never more so than in In the Skin of a Lion. | | | Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Authors, A-Z > (O) > Ondaatje, Michael | | | Look for books like In the Skin of a Lion by subject: |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0394281829
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| | The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje - Coursework.Info |
| | This metaphorical lightning abounds throughout the novel, lighting up the dark and melancholic landscapes for a very brief period, but long enough to reveal hints of the truth. | | | Home > A2 and A-Level (15,045) > Literature (3,060) > Novels (1,049) > The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje | | | A2 and A-Level Literature Novels Essay - The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje |
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http://www.coursework.info/i/76718.html
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| | Michael Cunningham ★ Steven Barclay Agency |
| | “Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours is that rare combination: a smashing literary tour de force and an utterly invigorating reading experience. | | | If this book does not make you jump up from the sofa, looking at life and literature in new ways, check to see if you have a pulse.” | | | He received his B.A. in English literature from Stanford University and his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. |
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http://www.barclayagency.com/cunningham.html
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| | The Program in Creative Writing, Princeton University |
| | Fiction Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, introduced by Edmund White, Playwright Will Eno, introduced by Michael Cadden, and Non-fiction Writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest, introduced by Carol Rigolot |
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http://www.princeton.edu/~visarts/cwr/reading_series.html
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| | 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 geographic peoples he mimics in his narratives. | | | Northern Light -- This will search Northern Light for online articles and sites about Ondaatje and his work. | | | His family life, real and imagined, is documented in Running in the Family, a novel that deals with the loss of language, birthplace and his father, both of which he neither saw nor heard after his emigration. |
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http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/ondaatje.html
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| | "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje." Online. | | | The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems. | | | As a result of his father's alcoholism, OndaatjeÕs parents eventually separated in 1954 and he moved to England with his mother. |
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http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Ondaat.html
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| | The Tartan Online : Michael Ondaatje: Author of "The English Patient" |
| | Finally Ondaatje read from both The English Patient and his newest book, Anil?s Ghost. | | | Ondaatje read from both of his poetry collections, including Handwriting, which he wrote in his native Sri Lanka. | | | Ondaatje may be critically acclaimed, but the way he plans a story may give hope to all the would-be writers out there that feel they can never come up with the ideas that some authors have. |
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http://thetartan.org/pillbox/2005/11/14/ondaatje
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| | Mapping the Woman's Body in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient |
| | Traversed by the investigating, possessive, and recasting gaze of her lover (himself a dedicated desert explorer), Katherine's body is criss-crossed by male inscriptions of significance. | | | Ondaatje defines Katherine solely in terms of her body, which, since she is denied a voice of her own and can therefore spring into life only through the narration of her observer, consequently becomes her only reality in the world of the text. | | | Ondaatje's preoccupation with issues of identity permeates his postcolonial texts, which present identity as a matter of multiple cultural origins and dispersed (geographical) locations. |
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http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/canada/literature/ondaatje/burcar/burcar1.html
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| | Literal Mind. Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje |
| | Keeping to Ondaatje's form, the characters were complex but elusive, the landscape exotic and foreign but somehow indescribably familiar. | | | In classical Ondaatje style, the three main characters run from their history and inner flaws by living in a war-ravaged country that allows them to single-mindedly concentrate on their respective occupations with vigor -- avoiding the sticky, unpleasantness of divulging their internal motivations until the end. | | | In her first trip in a 3-wheeler taxi, Ondaatje elaborates on Anil's experience: |
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http://www.newsjobs.net/literalmind/content/review4.asp?book=11
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| | The Connection.org : Michael Ondaatje |
| | The reading is so smooth, you might imagine the writing was effortless. | | | This is the man who crafted the Godfather movies and cut both versions of Apocalypse Now -- working and reworking dialogue, images, sounds, silence, and time. | | | Michael Ondaatje spends years writing a novel, and more years re-writing it. |
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http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2002/11/20021111_b_main.asp
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| | Michael Ondaatje Information |
| | A good place to order U.K. editions of Ondaatje's works. | | | Eleanor Wachtel's interview with Ondaatje about his recently published new novel in May 2000. | | | For a list of Michael Ondaatje's primary works, including his poetry collections, novels, films, and the volumes he's edited, please see my |
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http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/ae/engml/FRIEDMAN/ondaatje.htm
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| | Michael Ondaatje - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - 1970 | | | Ondaatje received his BA from the University of Toronto and his MA from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. | | | His older brother, Christopher Ondaatje, who also holds the Order of Canada, is a multi-millionaire financier, philanthropist and author of travel books. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje
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| | Christopher Ondaatji - Author and Traveller |
| | In the early nineties he sold all his business interests and retuned to writing where he himself has broken new ground as a respected book reviewer and a writer of thought-provoking books dealing with significant biographical, historical and geographical events. | | | Since 1995 Ondaatje has devoted his time to travelling, writing, and administering The Ondaatje Foundation. | | | He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in June 2000, and awarded a Knighthood in the Queen's honours list, June 2003. |
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http://www.ondaatje.com
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| | House of Anansi Press : titles |
| | To readers, his work includes some of the most memorable and moving verse written in the past half-century. | | | This beautiful, hauntingly illustrated edition of Michael Ondaatje's poem The Story was conceived by Ondaatje and artist David Bolduc as a fundraising project for World Literacy of Canada. | | | If you like this book, you may also like... |
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http://www.anansi.ca/titles.cfm?pub_id=278
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| | Michael Ondaatje to Read, Spend Week at UVM : UVM The View |
| | A reception and book signing at the Fleming Museum will follow his remarks. | | | Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient and Anil’s Ghost, will spend a week at UVM this month with students and faculty of the Department of English. | | | Ondaatje’s visit was made possible by the Department of English and its Buckham Fund. |
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http://www.uvm.edu/theview/article.php?id=1396
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| | Jacket 26 - Michael Thornhill reviews "Conversations: Walter Murch [etc]" by Michael Ondaatje. |
| | Minghella’s film, in its tasteful rage for order, clarity and brevity, has lost its soul in a hopeless, over-reaching quest for significance that transforms profundity into triviality. | | | The result is this book, and lay readers, film students and professionals alike owe Ondaatje a debt of gratitude. | | | Graphically illustrated with over 350 photographs this is arguably the best, most informed book so far (at least in English) on the art of image and sound editing and sound mixing. |
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http://jacketmagazine.com/26/thorn-murch.html
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| | The Connection.org : Michael Ondaatje |
| | Titled "Anil's Ghost," it will remind you a lot of the Ondaatje novel that became the Oscar winning movie, "The English Patient." We're in another war-broken world, watching shattered strangers from someplace else do meticulous work, collect their life memories, and fall in love. | | | We're feeling the flow of painterly and cinematic images as the motive force in his writing; the plot is rather a minor excuse for the prose. | | | We're hearing again the influence of Ondaatje the poet on Ondaatje the novelist. |
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http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2000/05/20000515_b_main.asp
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| | [minstrels] Bearhug -- Michael Ondaatje |
| | I haven't ever read anything else by Ondaatje, but Bearhug makes me want to. | | | Everytime you think you have them all, another binary hits you in the face, or skirts across your mind's eye. | | | Alan Links: Biography: http://mtmt.essortment.com/biographyofmac_rqzo.htm Collection of Ondaatje links: http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/ae/engml/friedman/ondaatje.htm __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? |
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http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1326.html
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| | Michael Ondaatje: An Overview |
| | Decentering Official History in In the Skin of a Lion | | | The Motif of the Collector and History in Ondaatje's Work | | | Oral History and the Writing of the Other in Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion |
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http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/canada/literature/ondaatje/ondaatjeov.html
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| | Michael Ondaatje: biography and encyclopedia article |
| | The english patient is a novel by michael ondaatje which deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned man, his canadian nurse, a thief,... | | | In the skin of a lion is a novel by michael ondaatje.... |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/m/mi/michael_ondaatje.htm
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Michael Ondaatje |
| | Ondaatje lived with his mother and her family, attending St Thomas' College School in Colombo from 1949 and then rejoining his mother, who had already moved to London, in 1952. | | | Michael Ondaatje's novels lend themselves to post-modern and post-colonial approaches to literature but his distinctive appeal as a poet and novelist is that of an experimental practitioner and stylist expert in creating sensuous and sensual effects. | | | According to a biographer (Jewinski 1994), Ondaatje has been generous in his support of other writers but he appears reluctant to be treated as a literary celebrity and to answer questions about his private life. |
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http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4944
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| | Ondaatje, (Philip) Michael - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Ondaatje, (Philip) Michael |
| | He won the 1992 Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient about four people in a villa in Italy at the end of World War II. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Ondaatje,+(Philip)+Michael
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| | BBC NEWS Programmes Breakfast Michael Ondaatje on the art of film editing |
| | He's known best for his literary work, but, Michael Ondaatje's latest book tackles the art of film editing. | | | Conversations - a collaboration with the American film editor Walter Murch - grew from Michael's experiences working on the cinema adaptation of his acclaimed novel, The English Patient. | | | "There's a scene in The Godfather where Michael kills two people. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/2380919.stm
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| | Book review: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Literature) |
| | In this poetic novel by poet Michael Ondaatje, the author explores the past and present (the closing days of World War II) lives of young Canadian nurse Hana, her English patient, her family friend and accomplished thief David Caravaggio, and Indian sapper Kirpal Singh (nicknamed Kip). | | | Hana, who has lost her father and her lover during the war, has been desensitised and traumatised—only 19, she has held cigarettes to the lips of armless boys and moved patients only to find that they are already being consumed by worms. | | | Book review: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Literature) |
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http://www.slywy.com/bookreviews/epatient.html
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