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Villa San Girolamo in Fiesole (Florence). The novel's historical backdrop is the North African and Italian Campaigns of the Second World War.The story is told out of sequence, moving back and forth between the severely burned "English" patient's memories from before his accident and current events at the bomb-damaged Villa San Girolamo (in Fiesole), an Italian monastery, where he is being ...
The English Patient is a 1996 epic romantic war drama film directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje, and produced by Saul Zaentz. The film stars Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas alongside Juliette Binoche , Willem Dafoe and Colin Firth in supporting roles.
Anthony Minghella CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright, and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.
The English is a revisionist Western television miniseries written and directed by Hugo Blick, and produced by the BBC and Amazon Prime. Starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer , it follows an Englishwoman who travels to the American West in 1890 to seek revenge on the man she blames for the death of her son.
The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The English Patient may also refer to: The English Patient, a 1996 adaptation of the novel The English Patient, a soundtrack album from the film "The English Patient" , an episode of the TV series Seinfeld
His novel The English Patient (1992), adapted into a film in 1996 [2] and won the 1992 Golden Man Booker Prize. [ 3 ] Ondaatje has been "fostering new Canadian writing" [ 4 ] with two decades commitment to Coach House Press (ca. 1970–1990), and his editorial credits include the journal Brick , and the Long Poem Anthology (1979), among others.
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Sacred Hunger is a historical novel by Barry Unsworth first published in 1992. It shared the Booker Prize that year with Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient.. The story is set in the mid 18th century and centres on the Liverpool Merchant, a slave ship employed in the triangular trade, a central trade route in the Atlantic slave trade.