He also describes his painstaking method of writing a novel - by longhand in notebooks. The English Patient won the Booker Prize and subsequently the Golden Man Booker Prize, given in honor of the Prize's 50th anniversary Anil's Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Mdicis. Noted for his lyrical prose, Michael Ondaatje talks about his love of poetry, how the characters of Hana and Caravaggio haunted him so much from a previous novel - In the Skin of a Lion - that he brought them back to appear in The English Patient. This beautiful novel portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of six previous novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The exhausted nurse Hana, the maimed thief Caravaggio, the bomb disposal expert Kip who are each haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless burns victim who lies in an upstairs room.Īs well as the mystery of the patient, the novel weaves two love stories - one from the past in pre-war Cairo, the other in the Italian villa. The four main characters are: an unrecognisably burned man the eponymous patient, presumed to be English his Canadian Army nurse a Sikh British Army. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War. The novel tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian villa as the Second World War ends. The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje talks to James Naughtie and readers about his 1992 Booker prize-winning novel The English Patient. A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The English Patient, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics listA small.
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