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
Ranulph Fiennes He was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Order. Fiennes' mother was Audrey Joan (died 2004), younger daughter of Sir Percy Newson, Bt. Fiennes inherited his father's baronetcy, becoming the 3rd Baronet of Banbury, at his birth. Fiennes is a third cousin of Mark Fiennes, whose children include actors Joseph and Ralph Fiennes, and is a distant cousin to the British Royal Family. After the war his mother moved the family to South Africa, where he remained until he was 12. While in South Africa he attended Western Province Preparatory School in Newlands, Cape Town. Fiennes then returned to be educated