Author Of "The English Patient" To Speak At Muhlenberg College
Poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje, who won the Booker Prize in 1992 for "The English Patient," later made into the Academy Award-winning film, will give a public reading at Muhlenberg College, Monday, October 20, at 8 p.m. in the Baker Theater, Trexler Pavilion for Theatre and Dance.Wednesday, October 8, 2003 00:58 PM
Poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje, who won the Booker Prize in 1992 for "The English Patient," later made into the Academy Award-winning film, will give a public reading at Muhlenberg College, Monday, October 20, at 8 p.m. in the Baker Theater, Trexler Pavilion for Theatre and Dance. This reading is free and open to the public. Ondaatje is best known as a novelist, although he is also an experienced writer of memoirs, poetry, and film. His most recent novel, "Anil's Ghost," received several Canadian book awards, including the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the Prix Medicis, the Governor General's award and the Giller Prize. This novel follows in the footsteps of his highly acclaimed novel "The English Patient," a tale that weaves together the lives of four diverse characters and their cultures, at the end of World War II. Ondaatje, himself an interesting weaving of cultures, was born in Sri Lanka, raised in England and is now a resident of Canada. A former instructor at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Ondaatje edits the literary journal Brick with his wife, Linda. This public reading is sponsored by Writers at Muhlenberg as part of Living Writers, a semester-long series of public readings. Future readings will be given by poets Len Roberts and Lucille Clifton.
