Ondaatje served as a founding member of the board of trustees of the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry from 2000 to 2018.
Ondaatje and his wife Linda Spalding, a novelist and academic, co-edit Brick, A Literary Journal, with Michael Redhill, Michael Helm, and Esta Spalding. Since the 1960s, Ondaatje has been involved with Toronto's Coach House Books as a poetry editor. Ondaatje claimed that, due to the magazine's anti-Islam content, it should not have been honoured. The award came in the wake of the shooting attack on the magazine's Paris offices in January 2015. In April 2015, Ondaatje was one of several members of PEN American Center who withdrew as literary host when the organization gave its annual Freedom of Expression Courage award to Charlie Hebdo. In 2016, a new species of spider, Brignolia ondaatjei, discovered in Sri Lanka, was named after him. In 2008, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. In 2005, he received Sri Lanka Ratna, the highest honour given by the Government of Sri Lanka for foreign nationals. In 1988, Ondaatje was made an Officer of the Order of Canada which was later upgraded to grade of Companion in 2016, the highest level of the order and two years later a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2002, Ondaatje published a non-fiction book, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, which won special recognition at the 2003 American Cinema Editors Awards, as well as a Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for best book of the year on the moving image.
Nichol, Sons of Captain Poetry, and The Clinton Special: A Film About The Farm Show, which chronicles a collaborative theatre experience led in 1971 by Paul Thompson of Theatre Passe Muraille. In addition to The English Patient adaptation, Ondaatje's films include a documentary on poet B.P. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter and Divisadero have been adapted for the stage and produced in theatrical productions across North America and Europe. In 2018, his novel Warlight was longlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2011 Ondaatje worked with Daniel Brooks to create a play based on this novel. Ondaatje's novel Divisadero won the 2007 Governor General's Award. Running in the Family (1982) is a childhood memoir. It was the winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award.
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In the Skin of a Lion (1987), a novel about early immigrants in Toronto, was the winner of the 1988 City of Toronto Book Award, finalist for the 1987 Ritz Paris Hemingway Award for best novel of the year in English, and winner of the first Canada Reads competition in 2002.Ĭoming Through Slaughter (1976), is a novel set in New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1900, loosely based on the lives of jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and photographer E. It was adapted as a motion picture, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and multiple other awards. The English Patient (1992) won the Booker Prize, the Canada Australia Prize, and the Governor General's Award. Anil's Ghost (2000) was the winner of the 2000 Giller Prize, the Prix Médicis, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the 2001 Irish Times International Fiction Prize and Canada's Governor General's Award. Ondaatje has published 13 books of poetry, and won the Governor General's Award for The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970) and There's a Trick With a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems 1973–1978 (1979). In 1971, taught English literature at Glendon College, York University. Ondaatje began teaching English at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. The poet D.G Jones noted his poetic ability. He attended the University of Toronto receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965, followed by a Master of Arts from Queen's University at Kingston.
He emigrated to Montreal, Quebec, in 1962, studying at Bishop's College School and Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec, for three years. In 1954, he re-joined his mother in England. Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1943, of Burgher descent ( Dutch and Sinhalese). 1970–1990), and his editorial credits include the journal Brick, and the Long Poem Anthology (1979), among others. Ondaatje has been "fostering new Canadian writing" with two decades commitment to Coach House Press (ca. His novel The English Patient (1992), adapted into a film in 1996 won the 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize. Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing The Dainty Monsters, and then in 1970 the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. Philip Michael Ondaatje CC FRSL( / ɒ n ˈ d ɑː tʃ iː/ born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. Ondaatje speaking at Tulane University, 2010
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