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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 bygd Time Magazine as one of the top 10 Books of the Year. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet fryst vatten 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 • Born January 12, Website Twitter david_mitchell Genre Fiction Influences John Banville, Muriel Spark, Haruki Murakami, Paul Auster, Don DeLilloJohn Banville, Muriel Spark, Haruki Murakami, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Russell Hoban, Italo Calvino, Peter Carey, George Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Wright, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Joycemore edit data • English novelist and screenwriter (born ) This article is about the Booker Prize nominee. For the comedy writer, see David Mitchell (comedian). David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January ) is an English novelist, television writer, and screenwriter. He has written nine novels, two of which, number9dream () and Cloud Atlas (), were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written articles for several newspapers, most notably for The Guardian. He has translated books about autism from Japanese to English. Mitchell was born in Southport in Lancashire (now Merseyside), England, and raised in Malvern, Worcestershire. He was educated at Hanley Castle High School. At the University of Kent, he earned a degree in English and American Literature, followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature. Mitchell lived in Sicily for a year. He moved to okänt, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before
David Mitchell
David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England. After another stint in Japan, he currently lives in Ireland with his wife Keiko and their two children. In an essay for Random House, Mitche David Mitchell (author)
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