Michael Ondaatje is a poet, novelist and editor and was born in Sri Lanka. He is best known for his 1992 novel The English Patient which won the Booker Prize and four years later became an Oscar-winning film.
His other novels include Coming through Slaughter and In the Skin of a Lion, as well as several volumes of poetry including Handwriting. He now lives in Toronto with his wife and together they edit the literary journal Bric.
Anil's Ghost is published by Bloomsbury