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When Michael Ondaatje Came To Canada In The 1960s, His Innovative Poetry And Prose Swiftly Began To Fuel The New Canadian Literary Renaissance. As His Contemporary Margaret Atwood Has Said, Ondaatje Was Quietly Recognized As One Of The Most Vital And Imaginative Of The Younger Poets. The Dainty Monsters (1967) First Established His Critical And Popular Reputation, Displaying The Emotional Energy And Creative Imagination That Would Soon Characterize His Entire Oeuvre. Only Four Years Later, Ondaatje Won The First Of His Many Awards, Canada's Prestigious Governor General's Award, For His Extraordinary Prose-poem The Collected Works Of Billy The Kid (1971). In 1992 He Became The First Canadian Writer To Win The Booker Prize For The English Patient.^ Today, As His Richly Metaphorical Texts Enjoy International Renown, Ondaatje's Fame Is Especially Fascinating, For He Has Neither Followed Trends Nor Played To Any Crowd, Instead Fulfilling His Wish To Start Each New Book With A New Vocabulary. Unlike Fellow Writers Robert Kroetsch And George Bowering, Ondaatje Dislikes Discussing Theory - It Takes An Appreciation As Sharp And Probing As Douglas Barbour's To Enlighten Us To The Thoughts, I

Author

Barbour, Douglas, 1940-

Publisher

New York: Twayne Publishers ; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805782905

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities