Pearl Ondaatje was a pioneer of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia. She was one of the radio station's first female newsreaders and a presenter of radio programs, including programs for women listeners of the radio station.
Pearl Ondaatje worked very closely with the Australian administrator Clifford Dodd and Livy Wijemanne in shaping the new Commercial Service of Radio Ceylon in the 1950s in Colombo. Millions of listeners across South Asia tuned into the hear the voices of announcers such as Pearl Ondaatje. Radio Ceylon ruled the airwaves of the Indian sub-continent in the 1950s and 1960s.
She is a relative of the Canadian philanthropist, Sir Christopher Ondaatje and his brother, the award-winning author Michael Ondaatje, who were both born in Ceylon.
PearlOndaatje was a pioneer of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia. She was one of the radio station's first female newsreaders and a...
Michael Ondaatje CC FRSL (/ɒnˈdɑːtʃiː/; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist. Ondaatje's literary...
Kim Ondaatje (born 1928), Canadian painter, photographer, and filmmaker Michael Ondaatje (born 1943) Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet Pearl Ondaatje...
presenters in the world. Among them are Livy Wijemanne, Vernon Corea, PearlOndaatje, Greg Roskowski, Tim Horshington, Claude Selveratnam, Jimmy Bharucha...
into Radio Ceylon. Announcers such as Livy Wijemanne, Vernon Corea, PearlOndaatje, Tim Horshington, Greg Roskowski, Jimmy Bharucha, Mil Sansoni, Eardley...
1993 to 1995. Pollard has lived in London since 2006. Pollard won the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual...
Little Criminals Michael Ondaatje 1943 novelist, poet The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, Anil's Ghost Christopher Ondaatje 1933 writer, publisher...
was awarded celebrating 50 years of the award; this was won by Michael Ondaatje for The English Patient. 2* Awarded in 2010 as the Lost Man Booker Prize...
for the Gratiaen Prize, Sri Lanka's literary award, founded by Michael Ondaatje. His latest novel, The Unmarriageable Man won the Gratiaen Prize in 2021...
1981 John Mortimer Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life 1982 Michael Ondaatje Running in the Family 1982 Janet Frame To the Is-land 1982 Janet Frame...
Niffenegger Ingrid Noll Oliver North Manning O'Brine T. Lynn Ocean Michael Ondaatje E. Phillips Oppenheim Baroness Orczy Perri O'Shaughnessy Sara Paretsky...
was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2017. Her feature film She, a Chinese premiered at the 2009 Locarno...
O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family Juan Carlos Onetti, El Pozo Chuck Palahniuk, Fight...
work is published in Sinhala and English. Naturalised Canadian Michael Ondaatje is well known for his English-language novels and three films.[citation...
horrific burns. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje. A Tiger Moth, G-ANFM, piloted by former ATA pilot Joan Hughes MBE appears...
for the Homeless. Some of the judges for their program included: Michael Ondaatje and former prime minister of the UK, Tony Blair. Ve'ahavta has operated...
" Journal of African American Studies, Vol 8, Issue 4, pp. 3–13 (2005) Ondaatje, Michael, Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America (2010) Murray...
Souster, Raymond; Nichol, B. P.; Yates, J. Michael; Colombo, John Robert; Ondaatje, Michael; Cull, David; Kearns, Lionel; Jonas, George (eds.). "Made in Canada...
Morrison was eulogized by, among others, Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, Michael Ondaatje, David Remnick, Fran Lebowitz, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Edwidge Danticat....
December 2007) p Sara Paretsky – Indemnity Only (November 2007) p Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient (October 2007) p Armistead Maupin – Tales of the...
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje Jalna by Mazo de la Roche The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy (1930s–1940s Vancouver)...
Isidore Okpewho Tides Nigeria Longman Canada and the Caribbean Michael Ondaatje The English Patient Canada McClelland & Stewart Europe and South Asia Lee...
Lodge, subsequent events have been held in the 500-seat auditorium, The Ondaatje Theatre. From its inception in 2002, the London Diving Chamber Annual Dive...
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