NMLP P-021841 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje · McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) · 1992

True first is the Canadian McClelland & Stewart edition; Ondaatje is Canadian and M&S preceded the UK Bloomsbury and US Knopf editions, both also 1992. Co-winner of the 1992 Booker Prize and the first novel by a Canadian to win it. The Knopf and Bloomsbury printings are separate firsts-thus, not the true first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-021841 for "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-021841, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).