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Life After Man: Art in the Age of the Post-Human: An Evening with Michael Ondaatje

Join us for an evening with one of the world’s foremost writers, Michael Ondaatje, author of Anil’s Ghost and The English Patient. Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje also writes memoir, poetry and film, revealing a passion for defying conventional form. In his transcendent novel The English Patient—later made into the Academy Award–winning film—he explores the stories of people history fails to reveal, intersecting four diverse lives at the end of World War II. From the memoir of his childhood, Running in the Family, to his Governor General’s Award–winning book of poetry, There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do, to his novel The English Patient, Ondaatje casts a spell over his readers. And having won the British Commonwealth’s highest honor, the Booker Prize, he has taken his rightful place as a contemporary literary treasure.

“Each of [Ondaatje’s] books is filled with passages of such finesse and vividness that they become part of us. He is a writer whose best paragraphs hover just over the page, then fly into the mind.”—The New Yorker

Organized by the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Co-sponsored by the College Commons.

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) -

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski