Philip Michael Ondaatje是斯里兰卡籍加拿大小说家及诗人。

The English Patient（英国病人）是他最出名的小说并且赢得了布克小说奖（ Booker Prize） 其小说改编电影也获得了奥斯卡金像奖。

1954年Michael Ondaatje出生于科伦坡并随母亲搬至英国。

Michael Ondaatje

1962年搬至加拿大。

他先后在毕晓普大学（Bishop's College School）和 Bishop's University 学习了一段时间后搬至多伦多,在多伦多大学（University of Toronto)取得文科学士学位并在皇后大学(Queen's University)取得文科硕士学位，之后他开始在西安大略大学（University of Western Ontario）教课。

1970他定居多伦多，并在1971至1988,他在约克大学（York University）及格伦登大学（Glendon College）执教英文文学。

其余4本著名小说

-Anil's Ghost

-In the Skin of a Lion

-Coming Through Slaughter

-Divisadero

作品：

小说

1976: Coming Through Slaughter

1987: In the Skin of a Lion,

1992: The English Patient

2000: Anil's Ghost,

2007: Divisadero

诗歌

1962: Social Call, The Love Story, In Search of Happiness

1967: The Dainty Monsters

1969: The Man with Seven Toes

1970: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-handed Poems

1973: Rat Jelly

1978: Elimination Dance/La danse eliminatoire, Ilderton: Nairn Coldstream

1979: There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems

1984: Secular Love

1986: All along the Mazinaw

1986: Two Poems, Woodland Pattern, Milwauki

1989: The Cinnamon Peeler

1998: Handwriting

2006: The Story

编辑校订

1971: The Broken Ark, animal verse

1977: Personal Fictions: Stories by Munro, Wiebe, Thomas, and Blaise

1979: A Book of Beasts, animal vers

1979: The Long Poem Anthology

1989: With Russell Banks and David Young, Brushes with Greatness: An Anthology of Chance Encounters with Greatnes

1989: Edited with Linda Spalding, The Brick Anthology, illustrated by David Bolduc

1990: From Ink Lake: An Anthology of Canadian Short Storie

1990: The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Storie

2000: Edited with Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding and Linda Spalding, Lost Classics

2002: Edited and wrote introduction, Mavis Gallant, Paris Stories

其他

1970: Leonard Cohen (literary criticism)

1973: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (play; based on his poetry

1979: Claude Glass (literary criticism)

1980: Coming through Slaughter (play based on his nove

1982: Running in the Family, memoir

1982: Tin Roo

1987: In the Skin of a Lion (based on his novel)

1994: Edited with B. P. Nichol and George Bowering, An H in the Heart: A Reader

1996: Wrote introduction, Anthony Minghella, adaptor, The English Patient: A Screenplay

2002: The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film

2004: Vintage Ondaatje