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Contact: David Baker, 956-9405 or 956-3774	Air Date: March 3, 1998

'English Patient' author Michael Ondaatje to speak at UH Author and poet Michael Ondaatje is the third guest of the UH Distinguished Lecture Series. Ondaatje will offer a free public reading from his poetry and fiction Tuesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the UH Manoa Art Auditorium. The following night, he will give a free talk, "From Fiction to Film: The English Patient," at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom. Ondaatje, a native of Sri Lanka, has lived in Canada since 1962. His best-known novel, The English Patient , won both the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Booker Prize. It is available in 32 countries, in 30 languages. The 1996 film adaptation won nine Academy Awards. This is the University Report, I'm Tracy Orillo Donovan letting you know that the UH Today segments are now on Wednesday mornings on NBC HawaiiNews8.

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