Editing Michael Ondaatje (section)

==Work==

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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).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reporter |first=Vit Wagner Staff |date=2007-11-28 |title=Ondaatje wins 5th Governor General's award |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/ondaatje-wins-5th-governor-generals-award/article_22357a41-d7a6-5f63-a483-964711dbc69b.html |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=Toronto Star |language=en}}</ref> [[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 for English-language fiction|Governor General's Award]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje {{!}} Penguin Random House Canada |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/124583/anils-ghost-by-michael-ondaatje/9780676973617 |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=www.penguinrandomhouse.ca |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Irish Times International Fiction Prize {{!}} Awards and Honors {{!}} LibraryThing |url=https://www.librarything.com/award/861/Irish-Times-International-Fiction-Prize |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=LibraryThing.com |language=en}}</ref>

''[[The English Patient]]'' (1992) won the [[Booker Prize]], the [[Canada Australia Prize]], and the [[Governor General's Award for English-language fiction|Governor General's Award]]. It was adapted as a motion picture, which won the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]] and multiple other awards.<ref name=nyt>Schillinger, Liesl (14 October 2011), [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/books/review/the-cats-table-by-michael-ondaatje-book-review.html "Michael Ondaatje's Passage From Ceylon"]. ''The New York Times''.</ref>

''[[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. ''[[Coming 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. J. Bellocq]]. It was the winner of the 1976 [[Books in Canada First Novel Award]]. ''[[Running in the Family (Memoir)|Running in the Family]]'' (1982) is a childhood memoir.

Ondaatje's novel ''[[Divisadero (novel)|Divisadero]]'' won the 2007 [[Governor General's Award for English-language fiction|Governor General's Award]]. In 2011 Ondaatje worked with [[Daniel Brooks]] to create a play based on this novel.<ref name=globe>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/how-michael-ondaatje-and-daniel-brooks-made-divisadero-into-a-play/article564980/ "How Michael Ondaatje and Daniel Brooks made 'Divisadero' into a play"]. Kate Taylor, Toronto — ''The Globe and Mail'', 4 February 2011.</ref>

In 2018, his novel ''Warlight'' was longlisted for the [[Booker Prize]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2018/jul/24/man-booker-prize-2018-longlist-in-pictures |title= Man Booker prize 2018 longlist – in pictures|date=23 July 2018|work=The Guardian|access-date=24 July 2018| language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>