David Mitchell
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David Mitchell's first novel, Ghostwritten, was awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second novel, Number9Dream, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and his third novel, Cloud Atlas, was shortlisted for six awards including the Man Booker Prize and won the British Book Awards Best Literary Fiction. Black Swan Green was published in hardback in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Born in 1969, he grew up in Worcestershire, and now lives in Japan with his wife and two children.
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Name: David Mitchell
Date of birth: 12/01/1969
Place of birth: Southport, England
Current Home: Japan
Education: University of Kent
Similar Authors: Haruki Murakami, Alan Warner, Tim Pears, Toby Litt
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It's a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor -- covert stammerer and reluctant poet -- anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But Jason hasn't reckoned...
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| Published: | 01/09/2004 |
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As Eiji Miyake's twentieth birthday nears, he sets out for the seething metropolis of Tokyo to find the father he has never met. There, he... Read more
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