Michael Ondaatje

Poet, novelist, and editor Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka in 1943. He lived in England as a child, and when he was 18, he moved to Canada, where he now lives with his wife, the novelist Linda Spalding. He earned a BA from the University of Toronto and an MA from Queens University. He has received many awards for his work, including two Governor’s General Awards and the Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient  (1992). He is the author of the poetry collections The Story (2006), Handwriting (1999), The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems (1991), Secular Love (1984), There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do: Poems, 1963-1978, and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970), among others. (Source)