Michael Ondaatje Reading: Marjorie Sinclair Edel Series

Announcing the Third Annual English Department Marjorie Sinclair Edel Reading Series Presentation: Monday, May 19

MICHAEL ONDAATJE author of The English Patient and one of the world's foremost poets and novelists, will read from his work Monday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Art Auditorium at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Admission is free.

Born in Sri Lanka, the former Ceylon, of Indian/Dutch ancestry, and now living in Toronto, Michael Ondaatje is the author of five novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize, the film version won several Academy Awards. Anil's Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Mdicis.

His latest novel, Divisadero, takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of south-central France. Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters, Divisadero is a multilayered novel about passion, loss, and the unshakable past, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory.

This reading is the third public event in The Marjorie Putnam Sinclair Edel Reading Series, which honors the memory of poet, novelist, biographer, and teacher Marjorie Edel (1913-2005) and her lasting contributions to Hawai'i's and the University's literary communities from 1935 into the twenty-first century.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Center for Biographical Research, and the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

For more information, contact the English Department at 956-7619, or heberle@hawaii.edu.

Event Sponsor
English, Manoa

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Mark Heberle, 956-7619, heberle@hawaii.edu

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