The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

At once violent and sensuous, calloused and tender * Granta *Moving and tragic… . Ondaatje is a poet and even his prose moves with rhythmic circular precision * The New York Times Book Review *Ondaatje’s eye for detail is wonderful and he uses it poetically, with superb restraint – Larry McMurtryWonderful…. Ondaatje’s language is clean and energetic, with the pop of bullets. This is literature, art. – Annie Dillard

Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels; a memoir, Running in the Family; a non-fiction book on film, The Conversations- Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film; and several books of poetry, including The Cinnamon Peeler and Handwriting. The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018, and was made into a film directed by Anthony Minghella. Anil’s Ghost was awarded the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize and the Prix Medicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.