Michael Ondaatje

Directing

Born: 1943-10-12
From: Colombo, Ceylon. [now Sri Lanka]
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.2

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Ondaatje, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & Nominations13 won · 1 nominated

Nominated

Booker Prize

Warlight

2018
🏆 Won

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

2012
🏆 Won

Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

Divisadero

2007
🏆 Won

Governor General's Literary Awards

2007
🏆 Won

Prix Médicis étranger

2000
🏆 Won

Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

Anil's Ghost

2000
🏆 Won

Giller Prize

Anil's Ghost

2000
🏆 Won

Nelly Sachs Prize

1995
🏆 Won

Booker Prize

The English Patient

1992
🏆 Won

Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

The English Patient

1992
🏆 Won

Toronto Book Awards

1988
🏆 Won

Guggenheim Fellowship

1984
🏆 Won

Officer of the Order of Canada

🏆 Won

Companion of the Order of Canada