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Michael Ondaatje

About the person
Career:

Directing

Date of birth:
1943-10-1282
Place of birth:

Colombo, Ceylon. [now Sri Lanka]

Gender:

Male

Popularity:

0

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Michael Ondaatje (born September 12, 1943), OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet of Colombo Chetty and Burgher origin. He is perhaps best known for his Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient, which was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film.