Sunday, October 21, 2007

A little info on Michael Ondattje

Born in Sri Lanka in 1943
Moved to england in 1954 and canada in 1962
studied at bishop university then University of toronto and got his MA Queen's University
He then began teaching at the University of Wester Ontario in london
The english patient won the brooker prize
he began as a poet and then became a novelist

he is the author of three collections of poems — The Cinnamon Peeler, Secular Love and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do — and four novels: In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and The English Patient

Our teacher met him when he was promoting his film

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