Oh, and in case you haven’t heard, Ondaatje is a weaver of words unchallenged in North America.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Patient « Books « Literacy News] Reference

You might immediately say, yes, but what about Ondaatje?.    From Wordnik.com.  [PART 4: To Pseudonym or not] Reference

Ondaatje and the creep who backed every Police Academy movie?.    From Wordnik.com.  [COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER] Reference

I've never been able to read anything by that dreadful Ondaatje.    From Wordnik.com.  [i go forth] Reference

I now trust Michael Ondaatje to sort it all out in the end and he did.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ondaatje divides and rules] Reference

Let me say here I would rather be Ondaatje than have something too common.    From Wordnik.com.  [PART 4: To Pseudonym or not] Reference

Though he's lived in Toronto since 1962, Ondaatje retains an otherworldly air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jazz In Strange Places] Reference

"All my books have Fats Waller in them," laughs Ondaatje, "and the odd sarong.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jazz In Strange Places] Reference

By coincidence both Matt and Ondaatje mention a Toronto coffee house, Jet Fuel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jet Fuel] Reference

The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled – Michael Ondaatje.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Ondaatje – Coming Through Slaughter + Herodotus] Reference

Ondaatje fans will recognize a possible source for one of his collections of poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music] Reference

I might have more in common with these kind of "one-off" people like Michael Ondaatje.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Metaphors] Reference

The shortlist for the 2008 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize has been announced.    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize shortlist] Reference

But ultimately, the movie was Minghella's, and Ondaatje clearly views it as a minor miracle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jazz In Strange Places] Reference

Because in it, in tiny writing, is inscribed ‘Michael and Kim Ondaatje, Kingston, 1967.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Word on how to run a great Used Bookstore] Reference

… It is only one of the extensive Herodotean motifs that Ondaatje threaded through his novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Candaules - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Here's a taste of it - I think Ondaatje distills the essence of Rousseau's paintings so well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tigers at the Tate] Reference

Why should I read Ondaatje, Murakami or Eugenides when I can just grab the latest Grisham or King?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do Original Art Sales Negatively Affect Storytelling? | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

Ondaatje began reading texts by 1950s explorers in North Africa -- men who were oblivious to politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jazz In Strange Places] Reference

I know of Canadian authors who are represented in the US, but they are mainly major writers Ondaatje, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's do the Time Zone again!] Reference

A book that binds readers of great literature, The English Patient garnered the Booker Prize for author Ondaatje.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Patient « Books « Literacy News] Reference

But then, I think that Ondaatje is a magician--I'll go wherever he takes me whether it be a short, choppy jog or a long, slow meander.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference

Ondaatje is not convinced that Almasy was a Nazi spy: "People who've been tracking him for years still don't know which side he was on.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jazz In Strange Places] Reference

But I did sit next to and talked to Vincent Lam, who just won the Giller Prize, an award that Atwood, Ondaatje and Munro had won before.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Shook Hands With a Nobel Prize Winner] Reference

Rutledge and Ondaatje had already been collaborating on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

"Audiences these days are so sophisticated," says Ondaatje.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"There is a great behind-the-scenes piece," Ondaatje told BD.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

• Sir Christopher Ondaatje - £1.7 million in donations to Labour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

It turned out Brooks had been hoping to one day team up with Ondaatje.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Ondaatje, albeit a poet and novelist, is not one of those tune coaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Ondaatje Prize: Valentina by Anastasia Pollard RP, oil, 51 x 41 cms (20 "x 16").    From Wordnik.com.  [Making a Mark] Reference

Ondaatje, who was born in Sri Lanka, has won the Governor General's Award five times.    From Wordnik.com.  [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference

Coetzee, Roth, Hosseini, McEwan and Ondaatje have all 'missed out' or been 'snubbed'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brit Lit Blogs] Reference

Or I think about how Ondaatje managed to convey so much richness by leaving so much unsaid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim Werker] Reference

Be a Man, a softly dramatic manta, is the only album cut with an Ondaatje co-credit attached.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

The country crooner's work with Ondaatje on the stage project bled into the creation of his album.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference