# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ondaatje
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:34:42.439Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ondaatje"
name: "Michael Ondaatje"
slug: "michael-ondaatje"
description: "Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Ceylon-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist."
tagline: "Canadian novelist and poet (born 1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Ondaatje_at_Tulane_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.36
  historical:           23.993048
  currentAttention:     6.642857142857144
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0648546"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump