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, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of...See more

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, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8 , and the movie Matrix: Resurrections . In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight . He lives in Ireland. See less