Michael Ondaatje (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
(Phillip) Michael Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon), on September 12, 1943. Ondaatje grew up surrounded by his extended family on an estate in Kegalle owned by his paternal grandfather, a wealthy tea planter. In 1952, four years after his parents’ divorce, Ondaatje moved to England with his mother, sister, and brother to attend Dulwich College, a public school with a strong academic program and a long literary tradition.
At the age of nineteen, Ondaatje followed his brother, Christopher, to Montreal, Canada, then moved to...
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