As The English Patient wins the Golden Booker prize, the author reveals why he could never have been a writer if he’d stayed in Britain On Sunday night, Michael Ondaatje stepped on to the wide stage ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Michael Ondaatje began The English Patient as a small scene between a burned patient and a nurse. He didn't know what he was writing – a ...

Bengaluru: It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient (1992) got the popular vote as the best novel to have won the Man Booker Prize in the last 50 years of ...

Twenty-five years ago, “The English Patient” stepped into the limelight to resounding applause only to get pelted by a volley of rotten tomatoes. After its release on Nov. 15, 1996, it clinched the ...

Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje talks to James Naughtie and readers about his 1992 Booker prize-winning novel The English Patient. The novel tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives ...