David Mitchell, author portrait
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David Mitchell

David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, Number9Dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House, and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize and has won the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial, and South Bank Show literature prizes, as well as the World Fantasy Award. In 2018, he received the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer’s entire body of work. In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from the Japanese two books by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism and Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism. Born in 1969, Mitchell grew up in Worcestershire and, after graduating from university, spent several years teaching English in Japan. He now lives in Ireland with his wife and their two children.
Utopia Avenue
Slade House
The Bone Clocks
Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Black Swan Green
Number9Dream
Ghostwritten

Books

Utopia Avenue
Slade House
The Bone Clocks
Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Black Swan Green
Number9Dream
Ghostwritten

Books for Autism Acceptance Month

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National Science Fiction Day

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