Michael Ondaatje

Various triangles spin through this beautiful book by Michael Ondaatje, which is set among immigrants to Canada in the early 20th century.

Five Best: Anne Enright Anne Enright 2011

Jet Fuel is known less for its wildlife and more as an uber-cool hangout in Toronto's Cabbagetown neighbourhood for bike enthusiasts, local Toronto writers such as Michael Ondaatje and Noah Richler, and its pull-you-through-the-hedge-backward, double-shot espresso.

canada.com Top Stories 2009

Like the ocean liner on which he sets his tale, Michael Ondaatje propels the reader on a strange and enchanting journey, all banked in the fog of boyhood memory.

Twelve Months of Reading 2011

Michael Ondaatje was described as having fallen under the spell of a teacher named Arthur Motyer at Queen's University in Ontario.

For the record 2011

In 1954, 11-year-old Michael Ondaatje left his native Ceylon now Sri Lanka on the Oronsay, a newly built ship of the venerable Orient Line.

A Floating World Martin Rubin 2011

Aleksandar Hemon For my money, Michael Ondaatje is the greatest living writer in the English language.

Twelve Months of Reading 2011

In Sri Lanka it has been hailed as the "great Sri Lankan novel", Waterstones, UK's big bookstore chain, has picked the book as one of their top debuts of 2011, and Michael Ondaatje has called it, "a crazy ambidextrous delight."

Ru Freeman: Author of Chinaman on Sri Lankan Literature and International Success Ru Freeman 2011

Still, no matter how you slice it, even if you invite incomparable literary talent like Michael Ondaatje, Francine du Plessix Gray and Margaret Atwood; incomparable theatrical talent like Julie Taymor OK, she's not always incomparable and Sir Peter Hall; and their incomparable colleagues from other disciplines, you are still left with an evening that smacks of a long commercial for a fancy watch brand.

Artists and Mentors Mark Collaboration Marshall Heyman 2011

In Sri Lanka it has been hailed as the "great Sri Lankan novel", Waterstones, UK's big bookstore chain, has picked the book as one of their top debuts of 2011, and Michael Ondaatje has called it, "a crazy ambidextrous delight."

Ru Freeman: Author of Chinaman on Sri Lankan Literature and International Success Ru Freeman 2011

Consider the remarkable moment in Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" when Katherine ends her affair with Count Almasy: "Her head sweeps away from him and hits the side of the gatepost."

In Fiction, Opposites Attract Jennifer Vanderbes 2011