The Booker at the Movies: The English Patient | The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 34
2Welcome back to the second of our Booker at the Oscars mini-series where we explore Booker Prize novels whose silver screen adaptations went on to experience Academy Award success. This time we're revisiting The English Patient, the joint Booker Prize 1992 winner by Michael Ondaatje (the other winner was Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger) and its silver screen counterpart, directed by Anthony Minghella.
In this episode Jo and James:
- Share a brief biography of Michael Ondaatje
- Summarise the plot of the book, and discuss their thoughts on it
- Explore the four main characters we meet in the novel
- Delve into Anthony Minghella's film adaptation and the differences between book and film
Reading list:
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-english-patient
- Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/sacred-hunger
- Black Dogs by Ian McEwan: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/black-dogs
- Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-butcher-boy
- Warlight by Michael Ondaatje: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/warlight
- Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
- The Histories by Herodotus
- In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
A full transcript of the episode is available at our website:https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-booker-prize-podcast-episode-34-the-english-patient-on-screen-and
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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