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Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje, award-winning author of The English Patient and Divisadero, will present the Winton J. Tolles Lecture at Hamilton College on Thursday, April 9, at 8 p.m. in the Chapel. It is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book-signing in Dwight Lounge, Bristol Campus Center. 

Ondaatje is a versatile author whose work spans poetry, fiction, memoir, film and criticism. In his transcendent novel The English Patient—later made into the Academy Award-winning film—he explores the stories of people history fails to reveal, intersecting four diverse lives at the end of World War II. 

In 2000, Ondaatje was awarded the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the Prix Medicis, the Governor General's Award, and the Giller Prize for his novel Anil's Ghost. His most recent nonfiction work is The Conversations: Walter Murch & the Art of Editing Film. Ondaatje's latest novel is titled Divisadero (2007). 

The Tolles Lecture was established in 1991 by members of the class of 1951 in memory of Winton Tolles, class of 1928 and dean of the college from 1947 to 1972. It brings to the campus distinguished writers in the fields of literature, journalism and theater to lecture and meet with students. 

This lecture will have sign language interpretation for the hearing impaired. It is sponsored by the Winton J. Tolles Lecture Series and the Dean of Faculty and hosted by the English Department.  

For further information contact Tina Hall, thall@hamilton.edu or 859-4462.

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