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Michael Ondaatje wins Golden Man Booker Prize

Tuesday, Jul 10, 2018 at 5:52pm

Michael Ondaatje has been awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize for his novel, The English Patient, making him the greatest-ever winner of the Man Booker Prize.

The Golden Man Booker Prize was made to celebrate the Man Booker's 50th anniversary. All previous 51 Man Booker winners were eligible for the Golden prize, and the shortlist, which consisted of five finalists, one from each decade of the Prize's history, was determined by a panel of judges. Ultimately the winner — Mr. Ondaatje — was decided by popular vote.

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Ondaatje originally won the Man Booker Prize for The English Patient in 1992. The book was an astonishing success across the globe right from its first publication, and in 1996 it was adapted into a film that won nine Academy Awards, furthering its popularity and success. Even after nearly thirty years The English Patient continues to sell regularly in our bookstores.

For an author as talented and prolific as Michael Ondaatje, the prize is very well deserved, and we give him our biggest compliments — congratulations, Mr. Ondaatje!

And as thrilled as we are for him personally, we're equally pleased for what this win signifies for CanLit (Canadian Literature) in general: a Canadian winner of one of the world's most esteemed literary prizes shows that Canadian authors are a force to be reckoned with.

If you'd like to read more by Ondaatje, we do stock many of his titles in our booktores. Of particular interest may be his newest novel, Warlight.

For more information on the Golden Man Booker prize visit the Man Booker website.

Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Literature, Canadian Lit

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The English Patient

- Michael Ondaatje

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Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction.

An unforgettable story of love and war, and of three men and a woman -- a young Canadian nurse, a Sikh bomb disposal expert, a thief turned spy, and a man burnt beyond recognition -- who come together in the final moments of the Second World War.