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A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.   Michael Ondaatje

 

Philip Michael Ondaatje  (born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lanka-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.

Ondaatje’s literary career began with his poetry: in 1967 he published The Dainty Monsters, and in 1970 the critically acclaimed The Collected Works of Billy the Kid.[2] His novel The English Patient (1992), adapted as a film in 1996,[2] received the Booker Prize in 1992. It later won the Golden Man Booker Prize as the best of the first 51 Booker Prize winners.



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