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
William Fiennes (author) and co-founder of the charity First Story, which promotes writing in challenging schools in Great Britain. William Fiennes is a member of the Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family of Broughton Castle near Banbury, Oxfordshire. He is the youngest son of Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele (born 1920) and Mariette "née" Salisbury-Jones. daughter of soldier and courtier Guy Salisbury-Jones. William Fiennes has several older siblings, including the artist Susannah Fiennes. He is a second cousin of the explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, and a third cousin of the actors Ralph Fiennes and Joseph Fiennes. He is a distant relative of the travel writer