Michael Ondaatje (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

Michael Ondaatje has published several volumes of poetry, including The Dainty Monsters (1967) and There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do: Poems, 1963-1978 (1979). He has also edited collections of short fiction by Canadian authors.

Achievements

Ondaatje received Canada’s Governor-General’s Award in 1971 for The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, in 1980 for There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do, and in 1992 for The English Patient. In 1973, Billy the Kid was a...

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