Editing Michael Ondaatje (section)

==Honours==

In 1988, Ondaatje was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] which was later upgraded to grade of [[List of Companions of the Order of Canada|Companion]] in 2016, the highest level of the order<ref>[http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=3263&t=12&ln=Ondaatje "Order of Canada: Michael Ondaatje, O.C., M.A."], [[Governor General of Canada]] website.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Governor General Announces 100 New Appointments to the Order of Canada as Canada Turns 150|url=https://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=16670&lan=eng|website=The Governor General of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston|access-date=31 December 2016}}</ref> and two years later a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Membership |url=https://www.artsandletters.org/membership |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=American Academy of Arts and Letters |language=en}}</ref>

In 2005, he received [[Sri Lankan honours system|Sri Lanka Ratna]], the highest honour given by the Government of Sri Lanka for foreign nationals.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Honors Gazette Notification |url=http://www.priu.gov.lk/news_update/Current_Affairs/ca200511/National_Honours_Gazette_Notification.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724105414/http://www.priu.gov.lk/news_update/Current_Affairs/ca200511/National_Honours_Gazette_Notification.pdf |archive-date=24 July 2010 |access-date=21 October 2024 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

In 2008, he received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=2008 |title=2008 Summit Highlights Photo | url= https://achievement.org/summit/2008/|quote= Poet and Hawaii resident W.S. Merwin meets novelist Michael Ondaatje at the International Achievement Summit.}}</ref>

In 2016, a new species of spider, ''Brignolia ondaatjei'', discovered in Sri Lanka, was named after him.<ref>Selvadurai, Shyam (10 August 2016), [http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/08/new-spider-species-named-for-michael-ondaatje-shyam-selvadurai.html "New spider species named for Michael Ondaatje"]. ''CBC Books''.</ref>