The English Patient

MICHAEL ONDAATJE

THE ENGLISH PATIENT

Michael Ondaatje is a novelist and poet who lives in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter, and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid; three collections of poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, Secular Love, and There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do; and a memoir, Running in the Family. He received the Booker Prize for The English Patient.