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Born in September 12, 1943 / Canada / English

Furtherreading

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BOOKS

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 14, 1980; Volume 29, 1984; Volume 51, 1989; Volume 76, 1993.
  • Contemporary Novelists, fifth edition, St. James (Detroit, MI), 1991, pp. 710-711.
  • Contemporary Poets, fifth edition, St. James (Detroit, MI), 1991, pp. 724-725.
  • Cooke, John, The Influence of Painting on Five Canadian Writers: Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Timothy Findley, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje, Edwin Mellen (Lewiston, NY), 1996.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 60: Canadian Writers since 1960, Second Series, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1987.
  • Jewinski, Ed, Michael Ondaatje: Express Yourself Beautifully, ECW Press, 1994.
  • Ondaatje, Michael, Running in the Family (memoir), W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 1982.
  • Siemerling, Winfried, Discoveries of the Other: Alterity in the Work of Leonard Cohn, Hubert Aquin, Michael Ondaatje, and Nicole Brossard, University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1994.
  • Solecki, Sam, editor, Spider Blues: Essays on Michael Ondaatje, Vehicule Press, 1985.
PERIODICALS
  • America, February 19, 2001, John Breslin, "War on Several Fronts," p. 25.
  • American Book Review, March, 1999, review of The Cinnamon Peeler, p. 23.
  • Ariel, April, 1997, Josef Pesch, "Post-Apocalyptic War Histories: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient," p. 117.
  • Biography, spring, 2000, S. Leigh Matthews, "'The Bright Bone of a Dream': Drama, Performativity, Ritual, and Community in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family," p. 352.
  • Booklist, March 1, 1999, Donna Seaman, review of Handwriting, p. 1145; March 15, 2000, Bonnie Smothers, review of Anil's Ghost, p. 1294; September 15, 2002, Carlos Orellana, review of The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, p. 192.
  • Canadian Forum, January-February, 1993, p. 39.
  • Canadian Literature, spring, 2002, Douglas Barbour, "Writing through Terror," pp. 187-188.
  • Christian Science Monitor, May 4, 2000, "An Island Paradise in the Flames of Terror," p. 17.
  • Economist, June 17, 2000, review of Anil's Ghost, p. 14.
  • English Studies, May, 1996, p. 266.
  • Essays on Canadian Writing, summer, 1994, pp. 1, 11, 27, 204, 238, 250; fall, 1995, p. 236; winter, 1995, p. 116; spring, 1999, review of The English Patient, p. 236; spring, 2002.
  • Harper's, February, 2003, John Gregory Dunne, review of The Conversations, p. 69.
  • History and Theory, December, 2002, p. 43.
  • Hudson Review, spring, 2001, Alan Davis, review of Anil's Ghost, p. 142.
  • Journal of Canadian Studies, summer, 2001, Dennis Duffy, "Furnishing the Pictures: Arthur S. Goss, Michael Ondaatje, and the Imag(in)ing of Toronto," p. 106.
  • Journal of Modern Literature, summer, 2000, William H. New, review of Anil's Ghost, p. 565.
  • Lancet, January 20, 2001, Rebecca J. Davies, "A Tale of the Sri Lankan Civil War," p. 241.
  • Library Journal, April 15, 1999, Barbara Hoffert, review of Handwriting, p. 100; May 15, 2000, Barbara Hoffert, review of Anil's Ghost, p. 126; June 1, 2001, Ron Ratliff, review of Lost Classics, p. 160.
  • Los Angeles Times, May 21, 2000, Jonathan Levi, review of Anil's Ghost, p. C1.
  • Maclean's, April 10, 2000, John Bemrose, "Horror in Paradise: Michael Ondaatje Sifts through Sri Lanka's Strife," p. 78; December 18, 2000, p. 66; September 9, 2002, interview with Ondaatje, p. 40.
  • Modern Language Review, January, 1997, p. 149.
  • Mosaic, September, 1999, Douglas Malcolm, "Solos and Chorus: Michael Ondaatje's Jazz Politics/Poetics," p. 131.
  • Nation, January 4, 1993, p. 22; June 19, 2000, Tom LeClair, "The Sri Lankan Patients," p. 31.
  • National Catholic Reporter, November 19, 1993, p. 30.
  • New Criterion, May, 2000, Brooke Allen, "Meditations, Good & Bad," p. 63.
  • New Leader, May, 2000, Tova Reich, review of Anil's Ghost, p. 37.
  • New Republic, March 15, 1993, p. 38.
  • New Statesman & Society, March 19, 1999, Lavinia Greenlaw, review of Handwriting, p. 48.
  • New Yorker, May 15, 2000, John Updike, review of Anil's Ghost, p. 91.
  • New York Review of Books, January 14, 1993, p. 22; November 2, 2000, John Bayley, review of Anil's Ghost, p. 44.
  • New York Times Book Review, April 24, 1977; December 22, 1985, pp. 22-23; April 11, 1999, Adam Kirsch, "Erotic, Exotic," p. 24; May 11, 2000, Janet Maslin, "Unearthing the Tragedies of Civil War in Sri Lanka"; May 14, 2000, Richard Eder, "A House Divided."
  • Poetry, May, 2000, Henry Taylor, review of Handwriting, p. 96.
  • Prairie Schooner, spring, 2001, Constance Merritt, review of Handwriting, p. 182.
  • Publishers Weekly, February 22, 1999, review of Handwriting, p. 88; March 20, 2000, review of Anil's Ghost, p. 70; July 3, 2000, review of Anil's Ghost, p. 24; August 12, 2002, review of The Conversations, p. 290.
  • Saturday Night, July, 1968; June, 1997, Valerie Feldner, review of The English Patient, p. 12.
  • School Library Journal, September, 2000, Pam Johnson, review of Anil's Ghost, p. 258.
  • Spectator, September 5, 1992, Cressida Connolly, review of The English Patient, p. 32; April 29, 2000, John de Falbe, review of Anil's Ghost, p. 29.
  • Studies in Canadian Literature, 2001 (annual), pp. 71-90.
  • Time, May 1, 2000, Paul Gray, "Nailed Palms and the Eyes of Gods: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost Is a Stark Successor to The English Patient," p. 75.
  • Times Higher Education Supplement, Roger Crittenden, review of The Conversations, p. 27.
  • Times Literary Supplement, September 4, 1987, p. 948; November 3, 1989, p. 1217; October 19, 1990, p. 1130; September 22, 1992, p. 23; February 5, 1999, Michael O'Neill, review of Handwriting, p. 33.
  • University of Toronto Quarterly, spring, 2001, p. 633; fall, 2001, p. 889.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, summer, 1999, review of Handwriting, p. 102.
  • Vogue, May, 2000, John Powers, review of Anil's Ghost, p. 201.
  • Wall Street Journal, April 2, 1999, review of Handwriting, p. 6; May 12, 2000, Elizabeth Bukowski, review of Anil's Ghost, p. W8.
  • Washington Post Book World, January 2, 1983, pp. 9, 13; November 1, 1987, p. 4.
  • World Literature Today, spring, 1999, Sen Sudeep, review of Handwriting, p. 333.
ONLINE
  • BookPage, http:// www.bookpage.com/ (October 1, 2001), Ellen Kanner, "New Discoveries from the Author of The English Patient" (interview).*