1 Ondaatje is revered as one of Canada's best writers.

2 Ondaatje shows the effects of war with a controlled, sad anger.

3 Ondaatje also use the techniques of polyphony, enhanced the color of the carnival style.

4 Ondaatje not only concerned about the reality of the situation of immigrants and identity, his text also across all boundaries, such as center and edge, reality and fiction.

5 The English Patient, as Ondaatje s most acknowledged fictional work to date, is characterized by intertwined themes.

6 Mr. Ondaatje, who started out as a poet, says plots often come to him as 'a glimpse of a small situation.'

7 In general, Said the critic and Ondaatje the writer coincide in interpreting the connotation of post-colonialism in their respective writings.

8 The novel Anil's Ghost written by Michael Ondaatje conveys the author's expectation that ethnic conciliation can be achieved by inter-subjective communication.

9 'I don't understand this whole concept of writer's block, ' says Mr. Ondaatje, who says he is working on a novel at the moment but declines to elaborate.

10 The English Patient is the masterpiece of the Canadian innovative writer, Michael Ondaatje and it is the first Canadian book to win Britains prestigious Booker Prize in 1992.

11 Coincidentally at that time , the bestseller The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje had just been released.