This author of "Letters and Other Worlds," which appears in his collection Rat Jelly, penned a work in which the Storyville photographer E. J. Bellocq befriends the jazz cornetist Billy Bolden.
One poem by this man blames political unrest on his father drunkenly interrupting a Perahara procession. This author of "Letters and Other Worlds," which appears in his collection Rat Jelly, penned a work in which the Storyville photographer E. J. Bellocq befriends the jazz cornetist Billy Bolden. This author wrote a novel in which a pair of anthropologists, the title character and Sarath Diyasena, discover and attempt to identify a skeleton nicknamed "Sailor." Another work by this author of Coming through Slaughter contains such characters as the crippled thief Caravaggio and the nurse Hana, and features extended flashbacks depicting on Katharine Clifton's affair with Almasy. For 10 points, name this Sri Lankan-born author of Anil's Ghost and The English Patient.
One poem by this man blames political unrest on his father drunkenly interrupting a Perahara procession.
Philip Michael Ondaatje