Born in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in 1943, novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje has made his home in Toronto for most of his adult life. That makes him the most proximate speaker yet in Just Buffalo’s wildly successful Babel series. Ondaatje is best known for The English Patient, which won him the Man Booker Prize in 1992. Two more recent novels, Anil’s Ghost (2000) and Divisadero (2007), have won wide acclaim as well.