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UNBELIEVABLE: Michael ondaatje | History Defined

Sir Christopher Ondaatje obituary

Businessman and philanthropist who helped fund a new wing for the National Portrait Gallery

The Guardian - UK

What "English Patient" left off screen

"But Have You Read the Book?" revisits the adaptation of Ondaatje's novel, which favored romance over history

Salon

Sarah Hall: ‘Everyone wangs on about Anna Karenina – I’ve never been able to finish it’

The author on being inspired by Michael Ondaatje and how Hilary Mantel helped her overcome her aversion to historical figure novels

The Guardian - UK

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The best recent poetry – review roundup

A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje; The Silence by Gillian Clarke; Joy in Service on Rue Tagore by Paul Muldoon; May Day by Jackie Kay; I Cannot Be Good Until You Say It by Sanah Ahsan; Grief’s Alphabet by Carrie Etter

The Guardian - UK

A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje review – a connoisseur of atmospheres

The author of The English Patient returns to poetry with a valedictory collection that is at home with the unknown and the romance of the incomplete

The Guardian - UK

Book of a lifetime: Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje

From The Independent archive: This audacious little book that defies categorisation entered Nikki Gemmell’s world like a depth charge of possibility – and has remained dog-eared and within reach ever since

The Independent UK

What does this year’s double Booker win mean for south Asian literature?

With Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka and India’s Geetanjali Shree taking home two of publishing’s biggest prizes, what next for one of the world’s most overlooked literary regions?

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‘Writers all want to be rock stars’: Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka on ghosts, war and childish dreams

Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better

The Guardian - UK

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