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Born in September 12, 1943 / Canada / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • The Dainty Monsters, Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1967.
  • The Man with Seven Toes, Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1969.
  • The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-handed Poems (also see below), Anansi (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1970, Berkley (New York, NY), 1975.
  • Rat Jelly, Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1973.
  • Elimination Dance, Nairn Coldstream (Ilderton, Ontario, Canada), 1978, revised edition, Brick, 1980.
  • There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, 1963-1978, W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 1979, published as Rat Jelly, and Other Poems, 1963-1978, Marion Boyars (London, England), 1980.
  • Secular Love, Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1984, W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 1985.
  • All along the Mazinaw: Two Poems (broadside), Woodland Pattern (Milwaukee, WI), 1986.
  • Two Poems, Woodland Pattern (Milwaukee, WI), 1986.
  • The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, Pan (London, England), 1989, Knopf (New York, NY), 1991.
  • Handwriting, McClelland & Stewart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1998, Knopf (New York, NY), 1999.
  • The Story, House of Anansi (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2006.
NOVELS
  • Coming through Slaughter (also see below), Anansi (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1976, W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 1977.
  • In the Skin of a Lion (also see below), Knopf (New York, NY), 1987.
  • The English Patient, Knopf (New York, NY), 1992.
  • Anil's Ghost, Knopf (New York, NY), 2000.
  • Divisadero, Knopf (New York, NY), 2007.
EDITOR
  • The Broken Ark (animal verse), illustrated by Tony Urquhart, Oberon (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), 1971, revised as A Book of Beasts, 1979.
  • Personal Fictions: Stories by Munro, Wiebe, Thomas, and Blaise, Oxford University Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1977.
  • The Long Poem Anthology, Coach House (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1979.
  • (With Russell Banks and David Young) Brushes with Greatness: An Anthology of Chance Encounters with Greatness, Coach House (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1989.
  • (With Linda Spalding) The Brick Anthology, illustrated by David Bolduc, Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1989.
  • From Ink Lake: An Anthology of Canadian Short Stories, Viking (New York, NY), 1990.
  • The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories, Faber (London, England), 1990.
  • (With others) Lost Classics, Knopf Canada (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2000, Anchor (New York, NY), 2001.
  • (And author of introduction) Mavis Gallant, Paris Stories, New York Review Books (New York, NY), 2002.
OTHER
  • Leonard Cohen (literary criticism), McClelland & Stewart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1970.
  • The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (play; based on his poetry), produced in Stratford, Ontario, 1973; produced in New York, NY, 1974; produced in London, England, 1984.
  • Claude Glass (literary criticism), Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1979.
  • Coming through Slaughter (based on his novel), first produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1980.
  • Tin Roof, Island (British Columbia, Canada), 1982.
  • Running in the Family (memoir), W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 1982.
  • In the Skin of a Lion (based on his novel), Knopf (New York, NY), 1987.
  • (With B. P. Nichol and George Bowering) An H in the Heart: A Reader, McClelland & Stewart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1994.
  • (Author of introduction) Anthony Minghella, adaptor, The English Patient: A Screenplay, Hyperion Miramax (New York, NY), 1996.
  • The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, Knopf (New York, NY), 2002.
Ondaatje's manuscripts are included in the National Archives, Ottawa, Canada, and the Metropolitan Toronto Lixxbrary.