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How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.


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Author Bio


  • NameMichael Ondaatje
  • DescriptionWriter
  • BornSeptember 12, 1943
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionPoet; Novelist; Educationist; Writer
  • WorksThe English Patient; Divisadero; Coming Through Slaughter
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Officer Of The Order Of Canada