Writers Speak Series
A Reading from Selected Works
Michael Ondaatje, Author
In Conversation with Claire Messud, Author and Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Harvard University
Michael Ondaatje is the author of five novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Man Booker Prize, and his fourth novel, Anil’s Ghost, won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.
Claire Messud is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the English Department at Harvard and author of numerous novels, most recently The Burning Girl (2017).
Conveners
Homi Bhabha
Director, Mahindra Humanities Center; Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, Harvard University
Tim Colton
Chair, Canada Program Steering Committee; Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Russian Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University
Cosponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center