Michael Ondaatje (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Michael Ondaatje has published several novels, a memoir about his childhood in Sri Lanka, and literary criticism. He has also transformed two of his works into plays: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid was produced in Stratford, Ontario, in 1973, in New York City in 1974, and in London in 1984; and In the Skin of a Lion was produced as a play in 1987. He is the editor of several anthologies of fiction and poetry as well.

Ondaatje has also exercised his writing talents in cinema, which has always fascinated him. After making Sons...

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