David Mitchell Biography

David Mitchell’s first novel Ghostwritten was published in 1999 when it won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize as well and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second number9dream was shortlisted for the Booker Prize as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and in 2003 he was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Cloud Atlas his third novel won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize the South Bank Show Literature Prize and the Best Literary Fiction and Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year categories in the British Book Awards as well as being shortlisted for a further six awards including the Man Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. It was followed by Black Swan Green which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker. Recent novels include The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and The Bone Clocks. Cloud Atlas was turned into a motion picture starring Tom Hanks.
Born in 1969 David Mitchell grew up in Worcestershire. After graduating from Kent University he spent several years teaching in Japan and now lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
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