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Michael Ondaatje, Chandrahas Choudhury | Anil’s Ghost | Jaipur Literature Festival

Anil’s Ghost: Michael Ondaatje & Chandrahas Choudhury Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka in 1943 and moved to Canada in 1962. He is the author of several novels, books of poetry, a memoir, and a nonfiction book on film editing. His works include The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, Anil’s Ghost, Divisadero and The Cat’s Table. He has received the Man Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award and the Prix Médicis Étranger for his fiction. His new novel Warlight came out in May, 2018. Chandrahas Choudhury is the author of three works of fiction: Days of My China Dragon, Clouds and Arzee the Dwarf. He is also the editor of a short introduction to the pleasures of Indian fiction: India: A Traveller's Literary Companion. Also an essayist and literary critic, he writes for the Wall Street Journal, Mint Lounge, and Conde Nast Traveller. He was a fellow at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2010, of Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart in 2016 and of Instituto Sacatar in Brazil in 2017. Last year his novel Arzee the Dwarf was published in Odia by his mother Sindhubala Choudhury as Bamana Arzee. Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje is widely regarded as one of the greatest living writers of South Asian origin. Here the distinguished poet and Man Booker Prize winning author of the English Patient discusses his work with Chandrahas Choudhary. THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 sessions: https://bit.ly/3bZZgaD Social media links: Facebook:   / jaipurlitfes.  . Twitter:   / jaipurlitfest   Instagram:   / jaipurlitfest