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David Mitchell

Full Name:	David Stephen Mitchell
Born:	January 12, Ainsdale, Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
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David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, and Ghostwritten. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, his newest novel The Bone Clocks has been selected for the longlist. Mitchell was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time in With KA Yoshida, Mitchell translated from the Japanese the internationally bestselling memoir The Reason I Jump. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.

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David Mitchell was born in Southport, England on January 12, He was raised in Malvern, Worcestershire and attended the University of Kent. There he earned a degree in English and American Literature and later an M.A. in Comparative Literature.

Mitchell’s complex first novel Ghostwritten was published in and went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His follow up novels number9dream () and Cloud Atlas () were equally complex and both were short listed for the Man Booker Prize. Mitchell’s novel, Black Swan Green, is a semiautobiographical account of the author’s struggles with stammering. The novel was selected by Time Magazine as one of the top 10 Books of the Year. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is Mitchell latest work of fiction, published in to critical success.

In , Mitchell published an English translation of Naoki Higashida’s memoir The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism. He collaborated with KA Yoshida, his wife, on the translation in an effort to raise awareness for autism. The couple also hoped to help others understand how autistic child

Books by David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas
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The Bone Clocks
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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Slade House
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Black Swan Green
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Ghostwritten
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Utopia Avenue
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Number9Dream
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The Right Sort
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David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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Cloud Atlas Vol. 1 of 2
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Earth calling Taylor
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( ) UK author, in Japan , whose work exhibits a thrusting and muscular (but finely tempered) Equipoise among the genres of Fantastika. His first novel, Ghostwritten: A Novel in Nine Parts (), which it would be reductionist to describe as a collection of linked stories, is all the same presented as a set of stories, each of which inhabits a different genre, from chthonic reminiscences of a preternaturally ancient Chinese woman to the Technothriller, from ghost story to Near Future parable set in New York. What marks the volume as perhaps more adventurous than (for instance) the superficially similar Tokyo Cancelled (coll of linked stories ) by Rana Dasgupta is the degree to which the implications and turnings of plot and characters of each tale interact centripetally with all its fellows (both within this volume, and proleptically in several of Mitchell's later publications). In the end, the radiant palimpsest of tales in Ghostwritten powerfully suggests that all stories are emanations of some singular (not yet revealed) Story: that a main (and perhaps primary) function of human beings living in a p

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