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‘It's the book that gave me freedom’: Michael Ondaatje on The English Patient
The novel has been translated into 38 languages and the film scooped nine Oscars. Now, as The English Patient wins the Golden Booker prize – voted readers’ favourite in 50 years – the author reveals why he could never have been a writer if he’d stayed in Britain
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Stuart JeffriesMusic blogOpera's Faustian pact: is a cinema director's vision what the genre needs?Sofia Coppola’s La Traviata was slated on its Rome premiere. But will a cinema audience have an entirely different perspective? Stuart Jeffries wonders whether an outsider’s eye is an advantage for an art form increasingly consumed outside the opera house
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Film blogHave your say on the Observer Film Quarterly's best British films pollLast week the Observer Film Quarterly published our choice of the top 25 British films of the last 25 years. In at the top: Trainspotting. A great result? Or a travesty of justice? And why no Sex Lives of the Potato Men? It's over to you
