Ask most moviegoers, "Who is Walter Murch?" and they're likely to stare uncomprehendingly. Ondaatje (The English Patient) seeks to eradicate that ignorance by providing an expert analysis of Murch's ...

Michael Ondaatje, the Booker Prize-winning novelist, has a new volume of poetry, "A Year Of Last Things." And it may reveal much of his wide-ranging life - from his childhood in Sri Lanka during World ...

Novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje offered little insight into his literary project last night. After reading for nearly an hour from his latest novel, he retired from the stage of Salomon 101. He ...

The cover of Michael Ondaatje’s new novel Warlight shows an archival photo of a 1930s London streetscape bathed in fog. The warm glow of a street lamp struggles to cut through the pea soup, but the ...

It happens in the time it takes to read a phrase: an epileptic seizure described as “some deadly shore recently passed.” You understand that the work you’re reading is both more complicated and more ...

Michael Ondaatje's work is thick with voices from different lands, with characters who stray far from home. Best known for his 1992 novel, The English Patient, the Sri Lankan-born Canadian is a poet ...

A Sri Lankan-born Canadian, Michael Ondaatje is one of the most renowned contemporary Canadian poet and writer. Ondaatje's literary oeuvre includes fiction, autobiography, poetry and film. His musical ...

Michael Ondaatje is a quiet writer. He’s certainly equal to grand, sweeping, historical subjects — civil war in Sri Lanka, the closing days of World War II — but the sound of advancing armies doesn’t ...

On March 5, the first online meeting of Moira’s Seattle Times Book Club took place, with a discussion of Michael Ondaatje’s novel “Warlight.” Set in postwar London, the book delves into the shadows ...

In those long lazy summers B C (before children), I made a habit of reading the winner of the Booker Prize and much of the shortlist. Part of the pleasure was the sense of righteous indignation when ...

This story was first published Saturday, Nov. 9, 1996. The first thing you notice about the new film adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient (which opens in ...