Ondaatje, Michael 1943-
Overview
| Works: | 541 works in 3,213 publications in 35 languages and 65,044 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Historical fiction Psychological fiction War fiction Drama Bildungsromans Action and adventure fiction Poetry Sea stories Film adaptations |
| Roles: | Author, Narrator, Bibliographic antecedent, Editor, Creator, Signer, Author of introduction, Photographer, Other, Interviewer, Interviewee, wst, Contributor |
| Classifications: | PR9199.3.O5, 813.54 |
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Most widely held works about
Michael Ondaatje
- The English patient by Anthony Minghella( Visual )
- Running in the family by Michael Ondaatje( Book )
- Discoveries of the other : alterity in the work of Leonard Cohen, Hubert Aquin, Michael Ondaatje, and Nicole Brossard by Winfried Siemerling( )
- Ragas of longing : the poetry of Michael Ondaatje by Sam Solecki( )
- Not needing all the words : Michael Ondaatje's literature of silence by Annick Hillger( )
- Rewriting apocalypse in Canadian fiction by Marlene Goldman( )
- Michael Ondaatje by Lee Spinks( )
- Comparative cultural studies and Michael Ondaatje's writing by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek( )
- Michael Ondaatje by Douglas Barbour( Book )
- Ways of being free : authenticity and community in selected works of Rushdie, Ondaatje, and Okri by Adnan Mahmutović( )
- Michael Ondaatje : haptic aesthetics and micropolitical writing by Milena Marinkova( )
- Writing within/without/about Sri Lanka : discourses of cartography, history and translation in selected works by Michael Ondaatje and Carl Muller by Paolo Brusasco( )
- Spider blues : essays on Michael Ondaatje( Book )
- Cosmopolitan fictions : ethics, politics, and global change in the works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J.M. Coetzee by Katherine Stanton( Book )
- Michael Ondaatje : express yourself beautifully by Ed Jewinski( Book )
- Michael Ondaatje : word, image, imagination by Leslie Mundwiler( Book )
- Travel writing and the transnational author by Sam Knowles( Book )
- Vintage Ondaatje by Michael Ondaatje( Book )
- Running in the family by Michael Ondaatje( Recording )
- The other side of dailiness : photography in the works of Alice Munro, Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, and Margaret Laurence by Lorraine Mary York( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Michael Ondaatje
The English patient : a novel by
Michael Ondaatje(
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499 editions published between 1992 and 2018 in 29 languages and held by 7,751 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Booker Prize-winning novel, now a critically acclaimed major motion picture, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening
499 editions published between 1992 and 2018 in 29 languages and held by 7,751 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Booker Prize-winning novel, now a critically acclaimed major motion picture, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening
Anil's ghost by
Michael Ondaatje(
Book
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180 editions published between 2000 and 2017 in 26 languages and held by 4,517 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The time is our own time. The place is Sri Lanka, the island nation formerly known as Ceylon, off the southern tip of India, a country steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition--and forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war and the consequences of a country divided against itself. Into this maelstrom steps a young woman, Anil Tessera, born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to work with local officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island
180 editions published between 2000 and 2017 in 26 languages and held by 4,517 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The time is our own time. The place is Sri Lanka, the island nation formerly known as Ceylon, off the southern tip of India, a country steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition--and forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war and the consequences of a country divided against itself. Into this maelstrom steps a young woman, Anil Tessera, born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to work with local officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island
The cat's table by
Michael Ondaatje(
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98 editions published between 2010 and 2017 in 8 languages and held by 4,020 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A new novel about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a sea voyage
98 editions published between 2010 and 2017 in 8 languages and held by 4,020 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A new novel about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a sea voyage
Divisadero by
Michael Ondaatje(
Book
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121 editions published between 2007 and 2017 in 18 languages and held by 3,403 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fleeing the violence that destroyed her family and separated her from her sister Claire and Coop, an enigmatic young man who lives with them, Anna finds refuge in an isolated house in south-central France, while she struggles to reconcile the past and present
121 editions published between 2007 and 2017 in 18 languages and held by 3,403 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fleeing the violence that destroyed her family and separated her from her sister Claire and Coop, an enigmatic young man who lives with them, Anna finds refuge in an isolated house in south-central France, while she struggles to reconcile the past and present
In the skin of a lion : a novel by
Michael Ondaatje(
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106 editions published between 1987 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 2,428 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient
106 editions published between 1987 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 2,428 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient
Warlight by
Michael Ondaatje(
Book
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32 editions published between 2018 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Just after World War II, 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time
32 editions published between 2018 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Just after World War II, 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time
Coming through slaughter by
Michael Ondaatje(
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119 editions published between 1916 and 2011 in 11 languages and held by 1,966 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of jazz musician, Buddy Bolden, and New Orleans in 1900
119 editions published between 1916 and 2011 in 11 languages and held by 1,966 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of jazz musician, Buddy Bolden, and New Orleans in 1900
The collected works of Billy the Kid by
Michael Ondaatje(
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110 editions published between 1970 and 2017 in 11 languages and held by 1,752 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
William Bonney a.k.a. "Billy the Kid," killed his first man when he was twelve. By the time he was twenty-one he had, by his own reckoning, slain 19 more. In the intervening years he had become "Billy the Kid," bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint. Michael Ondaatje traces Billy's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country
110 editions published between 1970 and 2017 in 11 languages and held by 1,752 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
William Bonney a.k.a. "Billy the Kid," killed his first man when he was twelve. By the time he was twenty-one he had, by his own reckoning, slain 19 more. In the intervening years he had become "Billy the Kid," bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint. Michael Ondaatje traces Billy's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country
Handwriting : poems by
Michael Ondaatje(
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40 editions published between 1998 and 2011 in English and Italian and held by 1,204 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An anthology of poems by a Canadian writer from Sri Lanka. In The First Rule of Sinhalese Architecture, he writes: "Never build three doors / in a straight line / A devil might rush / through them /deep into your house, / into your life."
40 editions published between 1998 and 2011 in English and Italian and held by 1,204 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An anthology of poems by a Canadian writer from Sri Lanka. In The First Rule of Sinhalese Architecture, he writes: "Never build three doors / in a straight line / A devil might rush / through them /deep into your house, / into your life."
The conversations : Walter Murch and the art of editing film by
Michael Ondaatje(
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60 editions published between 2002 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 1,069 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Conversations, over the course of a year, between the author and Walter Murch
60 editions published between 2002 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 1,069 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Conversations, over the course of a year, between the author and Walter Murch
The cinnamon peeler : selected poems by
Michael Ondaatje(
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53 editions published between 1989 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 988 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Michael Ondaatje's new selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist. -- from publisher description
53 editions published between 1989 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 988 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Michael Ondaatje's new selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist. -- from publisher description
The cat's table by
Michael Ondaatje(
Recording
)
18 editions published between 2011 and 2015 in English and held by 932 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--As far from the Captain's Table as can be-- with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury. But there are other diversions as well: one man talks with them about jazz and women, another opens the door to the world of literature. The narrator's elusive, beautiful cousin Emily becomes his confidante, allowing him to see himself "with a distant eye" for the first time, and to feel the first stirring of desire. Another Cat's Table denizen, the shadowy Miss Lasqueti, is perhaps more than what she seems. And very late every night, the boys spy on a shackled prisoner, his crime and his fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever
18 editions published between 2011 and 2015 in English and held by 932 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--As far from the Captain's Table as can be-- with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury. But there are other diversions as well: one man talks with them about jazz and women, another opens the door to the world of literature. The narrator's elusive, beautiful cousin Emily becomes his confidante, allowing him to see himself "with a distant eye" for the first time, and to feel the first stirring of desire. Another Cat's Table denizen, the shadowy Miss Lasqueti, is perhaps more than what she seems. And very late every night, the boys spy on a shackled prisoner, his crime and his fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever
The English patient by
Michael Ondaatje(
Recording
)
61 editions published between 1989 and 2013 in English and Danish and held by 838 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Four damaged lives come together during the aftermath of World War II in an abandoned villa in Italy
61 editions published between 1989 and 2013 in English and Danish and held by 838 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Four damaged lives come together during the aftermath of World War II in an abandoned villa in Italy
The English patient by
Anthony Minghella(
Visual
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119 editions published between 1995 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 817 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A love story set in Italy and North Africa during the first World War
119 editions published between 1995 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 817 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A love story set in Italy and North Africa during the first World War
Divisadero by
Michael Ondaatje(
Recording
)
34 editions published between 2006 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 774 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In California, then the Nevada casino's, 1970 a makeshift family of a father, daughter, adopted daughter and farm hand's lives are shattered by a traumatic event and they are sent off on separate courses
34 editions published between 2006 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 774 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In California, then the Nevada casino's, 1970 a makeshift family of a father, daughter, adopted daughter and farm hand's lives are shattered by a traumatic event and they are sent off on separate courses
From Ink Lake : an anthology of Canadian short stories by
Michael Ondaatje(
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34 editions published between 1990 and 1995 in English and held by 737 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This highly acclaimed anthology is an unexpected and discerning mix of traditional short stories and untraditional tales, as selected by one of Canada's most beloved writers, Michael Ondaatje. He has chosen 49 stories by a wide array of writers including Alistair MacLeod, Margaret Laurence, Carol Shields, Dionne Brand, Mavis Gallant, Stephen Leacock, Glenn Gould, Alice Munro, Rohinton Mistry, David Adams Richards and many more. Full of diversity and surprise, these writings reveal the geographical, emotional and literary range of the country. Above all, Michael Ondaatje's personal selection offers good reading and great entertainment
34 editions published between 1990 and 1995 in English and held by 737 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This highly acclaimed anthology is an unexpected and discerning mix of traditional short stories and untraditional tales, as selected by one of Canada's most beloved writers, Michael Ondaatje. He has chosen 49 stories by a wide array of writers including Alistair MacLeod, Margaret Laurence, Carol Shields, Dionne Brand, Mavis Gallant, Stephen Leacock, Glenn Gould, Alice Munro, Rohinton Mistry, David Adams Richards and many more. Full of diversity and surprise, these writings reveal the geographical, emotional and literary range of the country. Above all, Michael Ondaatje's personal selection offers good reading and great entertainment
Warlight : a novel by
Michael Ondaatje(
Recording
)
17 editions published in 2018 in English and held by 728 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In 1945, fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a figure they suspect might be a criminal
17 editions published in 2018 in English and held by 728 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In 1945, fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a figure they suspect might be a criminal
There's a trick with a knife I'm learning to do : poems, 1963-1978 by
Michael Ondaatje(
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25 editions published between 1978 and 1992 in 3 languages and held by 625 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ondaatje is obsessed with the relationship and interdependence of the worlds of man and nature. Winner of the 1979 Governor General's Award for Poetry
25 editions published between 1978 and 1992 in 3 languages and held by 625 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ondaatje is obsessed with the relationship and interdependence of the worlds of man and nature. Winner of the 1979 Governor General's Award for Poetry
Anil's ghost by
Michael Ondaatje(
Recording
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38 editions published between 2000 and 2011 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 620 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When bodies are discovered on the island of Sri Lanka, Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist, born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, is sent by an international human rights group to work with local officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island
38 editions published between 2000 and 2011 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 620 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When bodies are discovered on the island of Sri Lanka, Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist, born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, is sent by an international human rights group to work with local officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island
Lost classics by
Michael Ondaatje(
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23 editions published between 2000 and 2011 in English and held by 604 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of essays from leading writers on books, "that have inspired and influenced, but are no longer available, hard to find, or sadly under-appreciated."
23 editions published between 2000 and 2011 in English and held by 604 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of essays from leading writers on books, "that have inspired and influenced, but are no longer available, hard to find, or sadly under-appreciated."
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Related Identities
- Fiennes, Ralph Narrator Performer Actor
- Binoche, Juliette 1964- Performer Actor
- Billy the Kid
- Zaentz, Saul Producer
- Murch, Walter 1943- Film editor Author
- Cohen, Leonard 1934-2016
- Solecki, Sam 1946- Author Editor
- Brossard, Nicole
- Siemerling, Winfried 1956- Author
- Aquin, Hubert 1929-1977
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Alternative Names
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje Canadees auteur
Michael Ondaatje canadisk poet
Michael Ondaatje écrivain canadien
Michael Ondaatje escriptor canadenc
Michael Ondaatje escritor canadiense
Michael Ondaatje Kanada kirjanik
Michael Ondaatje kanada verkisto
Michael Ondaatje kanadensisk poet
Michael Ondaatje kanadischer Schriftsteller
Michael Ondaatje kanadisk poet
Michael Ondaatje kanadsko-srílanský prozaik a básník
Michael Ondaatje scriitor canadian
Michael Ondaatje scrittore singalese
Ondaatje, Michael
Ondaatje, Philip Michael.
Ondaatje, Philip Michael 1943-
Ondatje, Maikls 1943-
Ondaṭyeh, Maiḳl 1943-
Ondatže, Majkl 1943-
Uwndātǧī, Māykil 1943-
Майкл Андатжэ
Майкл Ондатже
Майкъл Ондатджи
Ондатже, Майкл
מייקל אונדאטג'
מייקל אונדאצ'י סופר קנדי
مایکل اونداده
මයිකල් ඔන්ඩාජේ
마이클 온다체
온다치, 마이클 1943-
オンダーチェ, マイケル
マイケル・オンダーチェ
麥可·翁達傑
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Japanese (15)
Danish (15)
Swedish (13)
Finnish (13)
Czech (12)
Hungarian (11)
Russian (9)
Romanian (8)
Turkish (7)
Slovenian (6)
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Norwegian (5)
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