29/08/2011
Michael Ondaatje won the Booker Prize with his novel The English Patient. He talks to Mark Lawson about poetry and a new novel following a boy in the 50s from Ceylon to England.
Mark Lawson talks to Michael Ondaatje who won the Booker Prize with his novel The English Patient. Now he's publishing a poetry collection and a new book The Cat's Table, which depicts a boy journeying from Ceylon to England in the 1950s. The author made exactly the same journey, but is adamant that this new work is a fiction. He explains why.
Producer Stephen Hughes.
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Mark Lawson talks to author Michael Ondaatje in a special programme-length interview
Duration: 28:17
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- Mon 29 Aug 201119:15BBC Radio 4
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