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World Service,12 May 2000,23 mins

Michael Ondaatje on Writing History

Meridian

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Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient, talks about how, as a novelist, he writes history. His recent book, Anil's Ghost, ranges back and forth from the 5th century to today in a "contemporary and forensic" fashion.

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