David Mitchell

The author of Cloud Atlas and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet...

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 West Cork with his wife and two children.

His latest book is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet , which Is Greg Eden's tip for the 2010 Booker Prize (as of 15/3/2010).

Earlier this year, Waterstone's Books Quarterly editor, Ed Wood conducted a fantastic interview with David on The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.

You can read the interview in full here

Fact file

Name: David Mitchell

Date of birth: 12/01/1969

Place of birth: Southport, England

Current Home: Japan

Education: University of Kent

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