He began his career as a poet but is best known as the author of the 1992 novel "The English Patient," which was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture.
Of many genres."ĭuring a career spanning more than 50 years, he has written fiction, poetry, short stories and a memoir.
He has said of himself, "I am a mongrel of place. "He is a master stylist in both poetry and prose, and we are honored to add his work to the Ransom Center's collections, which include many of our finest contemporary writers."īorn in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, in 1943, Ondaatje immigrated to England in 1954 and moved to Canada when he was 18. "Displaced by history, the inhabitants of Michael Ondaatje's novels often find their most stable home in language," said Stephen Enniss, director of the Ransom Center. These materials will give students and scholars a glimpse of his writing process from the 1960s to the present, and the archive will serve as the primary resource for all future studies of Ondaatje's work. Also present are audio recordings of Ondaatje dictating his difficult handwriting to a typist, and, finally, heavily annotated printed drafts. He composed his novels in dozens of handwritten notebooks often resembling scrapbooks, with found images inserted among the manuscript pages. Present are research notes containing background detail on the places where his fiction is set. Ondaatje's archive, which fills more than 90 boxes, documents in great detail his working methods.
Ondaatje, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel "The English Patient," is widely regarded as one of the finest English-language novelists writing today. The archive of award-winning author Michael Ondaatje has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. News Release - SeptemArchive of Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient," acquired by UT Austin's Harry Ransom Center
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