Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Directing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1943-10-12 (81 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Colombo, Ceylon. [now Sri Lanka]

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.