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He was born in Sri Lanka, former known as Ceylon, on 12 September 1943 having a family with dutch-tamil-portuguese-sinhalese origin.

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When he was 5, his parents divorced and his mother moved to England with his brother Christopher and sister Janet, he stayed with his sister Gillian living with his uncles. He went to school in Colombo, capital of former Ceylon, until he moved to England, in 1954 with 11 eleven years old, where he continued his studies in London.

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In 1962, with 19 years old, he moved to Toronto, Canada, where he was naturalized Canadian and lives until today with his wife Linda Spalding, who is a novelist and academic. They are both co-editors of the literary journal Brick. And he also has two children with his first wife, Kim Jones. There, he started his education at the University of Toronto and Queen's university, before he also studied at Bishop’s University in Quebec. Michael then became a university teacher of English Literature at York University and began his career as a poet, his poetry was created with a mix of myth, history, jazz, memoirs, etc.

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He officially debuted as a writer in 1967 when he published his collection of poems entitled The Dainty Monsters, that has the blend of everyday life and mythology, then published several other works. Odaantje stated that if he didn’t have moved to Canada he wouldn’t have become a writer. He said “There were a lot of writers my age making books and discussing poetry. That was a gift. The community of writers was what allowed me to try and continue writing”.

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He is also a filmmaker, another one of his passions, and has produced 3 documentaries films. He has also written works that involves filmmaking. Odaantje works has lots of his own experiences, origins and interests, some examples of his novels are “Running in the family” (1982) that tells his memoirs about his childhood life at Sri Lanka, "In the Skin of The Lion" (1987), it’s a novel about the clash between rich and poor in the 20th century Toronto. His book "Anil’s Ghost" (2000) that is set in his hometown during the South Asian Civil War. Some of his poetry includes The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems (1981), which won the Canadian Governor General's Award in 1971; The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems (1989), etc.

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His most known work "The English Patient", a 1992 novel, was his breakthrough internationally. The book takes place at an Italian villa during the Second World War and tells about the lives of four people that were crossed and intertwined during the war, and let’s not forget the love story of our main characters. This work, winner of the Booker Prize, the Canada Australia Prize and the Canada Governor General's Award, among others, was later adapted to a film with the same name, which had won 9 Oscar, one of them being The Best Film, in 1997.

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Here’s a translated fragment of his most famous book: 

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Here’s a translated fragment of his most famous book: 

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“Passei semanas no deserto, esquecendo-me de olhar para a lua, diz ele, pois um homem casado pode passar dias sem nunca olhar para o rosto da esposa. Não são pecados de omissão, mas sinais de preocupação. Seus olhos se fixam no rosto da jovem. Se ela mover a cabeça, o olhar dele viajará ao lado dela para a parede. Ela se inclina para frente. Como você foi queimado? É fim de tarde. Suas mãos brincam com um pedaço de lençol, acariciando-o com as costas dos dedos. Eu caí queimando no deserto. Eles encontraram meu corpo e me fizeram um barco de gravetos e me arrastaram pelo deserto. Estávamos no Mar de Areia, de vez em quando cruzando leitos de rios secos. Nômades, você vê. Beduíno. Eu voei para baixo e a própria areia pegou fogo. Eles me viram ficar nu fora dela. O capacete de couro em minha cabeça em chamas. Eles me amarraram em um berço, um barco de carcaça, e os pés batiam enquanto corriam comigo. Eu havia quebrado a escassez do deserto. O beduíno sabia sobre fogo. Eles sabiam sobre aviões que desde 1939 estavam caindo do céu. Algumas de suas ferramentas e utensílios foram feitos de metal de aviões e tanques acidentados. Foi a época da guerra no céu. Eles podiam reconhecer o zumbido de um avião ferido, eles sabiam como abrir caminho em meio a esses naufrágios. Um pequeno parafuso de uma cabine tornou-se uma joia. Fui talvez o primeiro a sair vivo de uma máquina em chamas. Um homem cuja cabeça estava pegando fogo. Eles não sabiam meu nome. Eu não conhecia sua tribo. -Quem é Você? -Eu não sei. Você fica me perguntando. -Você disse que era inglês. "

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“I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of preoccupation. His eyes lock onto the young woman’s face. If she moves her head, his stare will travel alongside her into the wall. She leans forward. How were you burned? It is late afternoon. His hands play with a piece of sheet, the back of his fingers caressing it. I fell burning into the desert. They found my body and made me a boat of sticks and dragged me across the desert. We were in the Sand Sea, now and then crossing dry riverbeds. Nomads, you see. Bedouin. I flew down and the sand itself caught fire. They saw me stand up naked out of it. The leather helmet on my head in flames. They strapped me onto a cradle, a carcass boat, and feet thudded along as they ran with me. I had broken the spareness of the desert. The Bedouin knew about fire. They knew about planes that since 1939 had been falling out of the sky. Some of their tools and utensils were made from the metal of crashed planes and tanks. It was the time of the war in heaven. They could recognize the drone of a wounded plane, they knew how to pick their way through such shipwrecks. A small bolt from a cockpit became jewellery. I was perhaps the first one to stand up alive out of a burning machine. A man whose head was on fire. They didn’t know my name. I didn’t know their tribe. -Who are you? -I don’t know. You keep asking me. -You said you were English.”

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He is better known as a novelist but gained a lot of attention as a poet accumulating several works at the age of 78 and being a renomed and respected author. ● Works: ● The Dainty Monsters - 1967 ● Leonard Cohen - 1969 (rehearsal) ● The Man with Seven Toes - 1969 ● The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - 1970 ● The Broken Ark: A Book of Beasts - 1971 (ed.) ● Rat Jelly – 1973 ● Coming Through Slaughter - 1976 ● Personal Fictions: Stories by Munro, Wiebe, Thomas, and Blaise - 1977 (ed.) ● Elimination Dance - 1978 ● There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do - 1979 ● The Long Poem Anthology - 1979 (ed.) ● Tin Roof - 1982 ● Claude Glass - 1982 ● Running in the Family - 1982 ● Secular Love - 1984 ● In the Skin of a Lion - 1987 ● From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories - 1990 (editor) ● The Brick Reader - 1991 (with Linda Spalding) ● The Cinnamon Peeler - 1991 ● Brasil: O paciente inglês /Portugal: O doente inglês - the original The English Patient - 1992 ● Handwriting - 1998 ● Lost Classics - 2000 (with Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding and Linda Spalding) ● Anil's Ghost - 2000. ● The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film - 2002 ● The Story - 2005 ● Divisadero- 2007.

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Link: https://padlet.com/adrianasantos30/x946qiwxls9bgv8e

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Toronto is Canada's largest city, as well as being the capital of the province of Ontario. It is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America after Mexico City, New York, Los Angeles. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural cities in the world. It’s located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario, which forms part of the border between Canada and the United States.

Toronto was a city of churches, the morality laws in the city were very strict until European immigration arrived and gained a nickname “Toronto the Good, the town that fun forgot, until the Italians arrived.” Now it’s a lively, thriving and cosmopolitan metropolitan area, with a lot of immigrants - more than half of the Toronto metropolitan area was made up of minorities - and while the official language is English, over 160 languages are spoken in the city.

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Toronto has the CN Tower - third biggest tower in the world - and is known for having lots of skyscrapers, it also is a very prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, so it include numerous museums and galleries, festivals and public events, entertainment districts, national historic sites and sport activities.

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This city is important to Michael Ondaatje, because it was the city where he started his education. Then he became a university teacher and there he decided he wanted to be a writer, he even stated that if he didn’t have moved to Canada he wouldn’t have become a writer. Ondaatje, then, was naturalized Canadian and lives until today with his wife.

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University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park - it was named that way in 1960, in honor of Queen Victoria from United Kingdom - It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada.

The University of Toronto, in all major rankings, consistently ranks in the top ten public universities in the world and as the top university in the country. Academically, the University of Toronto is noted for influential movements and curricula in literary criticism and communication theory, this was the university that Michael Ondaantje studied.

But, don’t worry. There are nice and interesting places to enjoy besides the university, one of them is the Strachan Hall da Trinity College (6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto), a dining hall that you can go to even if you aren't a student and the best is… It’s like you are in Hogwarts, if you are a fan.

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Toronto being a multicultural city with lots of art, culture, etc. não pode faltar uma visita to one of Canada's most influential alternative theatres: Theatre Passe Muraille that translates to "theatre beyond walls" was founded in 1968, in Toronto.

The company has the art of “collective creation,” a technique in which plays are made collectively by the actors themselves. The company remains one of only a handful of non-for-profit theatres in Toronto that own the spaces in which they perform.

They are located on Ryerson Avenue in the Alexandra Park neighbourhood of Toronto, The building was originally a bakery built in 1902, but passed by large renovations since then. It’s an interesting place to enjoy if you are interested in that type of thing. It’s important to our author because in 2011, Divisadero was adapted to stage by director Daniel Brooks and premiered at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto.

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If you like and really enjoy reading and going to big libraries with tons and tons of books you are gonna lik-love this place. Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library is considered one of the most beautiful libraries in the world and is located at the University of Toronto - I told you that the University of Toronto has a lot to offer.

This library has the largest collection of rare books and manuscripts available to the public in Canada. She is located at the same building as the Robarts Library. In fact, the building that is commonly referred to as the Robarts Library, has 3 towers, including the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and the Faculty of Information. The address is 120 St. George Street.