The English Patient Madhumalati Adhikari has critiqued the treatment of World War II and its effects on the characters of the novel. The novel won the 1992 Booker Prize, athe 1992 Governor General's Award, and the 2018 Golden Man Booker award. The book was adapted into a 1996 film by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth, and Juliette Binoche. The film received nine Academy Awards—including Best Picture and Director—at the 69th Academy Awards. The English Patient The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian
Max Minghella 4th century Egypt and revolves around Hypatia of Alexandria. Later in 2008, Minghella played a pompous film director in "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People", and was seen in a segment of the dark comedy "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men". In David Fincher's "The Social Network", the 2010 film about the origins of Facebook, he plays Divya Narendra, one of the Harvard upperclassmen who sues Mark Zuckerberg for stealing the idea behind Facebook. In June 2010, Minghella was cast in the Russian science-fiction film "The Darkest Hour", released in December 2011. He appeared in the ensemble dramedy "10 Years"