Michael Ondaatje
Poet, writer and sometime documentary director Michael Ondaatje has written a number of books including several award-winning novels, a memoir and a study of film editing, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (2002). He remains best-known, however, for The English Patient (1992), which not only won him the Man Booker Prize for Literature but was made into a multiple-award-winning film of the same name by Anthony Minghella.