They function as surer signs of cultural identity than passports. Scattered through his five works of prose and his three books of poetry are directions, explanations, recitations. Ondaatje, 53, with a new skill, a bit of a specialist's knowledge.
Indeed, one might expect to come away from meeting Mr. I want to see how people make something, whether it's beads or films.'' I love the process of film editing: it's so exciting. ''About six years ago, I knew that was wrong. ''I'm really a child of film, and I had always wanted to be a writer-director,'' he said. Nonetheless, his deep involvement with the making of the movie has sated his interest in film The film has not only put his novel, published in 1992, on the New York Times paperback best-seller list, but has also punched up the sales of his other books.
Now, which is really odd for someone who's a poet.''
Ondaatje, whose name is pronounced on-DAHT-chee. ''I think what's happened is that 'The English Patient' has become something that's not owned by me,'' lamented Mr. It's all becoming something much greater than The film and the book have acquired a slightly sacred fog: according to a recent ''Seinfeld'' joke, those who don't like the movie are flinty-hearted and possibly untrustworthy. Very difficult to talk about his own fame, which has increased a hundredfold. He will attend the awards ceremony tomorrow, and he is not upset that the characters he created in ''The English Patient'' may become forever associated with Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes. ''Suddenly, I'm in a different location.'' He said over a recent lunch at Nirvana, an Indian restaurant high over Central Park South. He Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje has long had a vested interest in the Academy Awards. They've Kidnapped 'The English Patient' By BEN RATLIFF
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