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David Mitchell

(b.1969)

David Mitchell was born in 1969 and his first novel, Ghostwritten, was published by Sceptre in 1999 to great acclaim and won the Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His second novel, Number9dream (2001) was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He was chosen as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists 2003.

Awards: WFA (2015), Nibbies (2005) see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Literary Fiction

Novels

   Ghostwritten (1999)
   Number9dream (1999)
   Cloud Atlas (2004)
   Black Swan Green (2005)
   The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010)
   The Bone Clocks (2014)
   Slade House (2015)
   Utopia Avenue (2020)

Collections

I'm with the Bears (2011) (with others)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by David Mitchell

First Edition (2020)
Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books
edited by
Daniel Gedeon and David Headley

Freeman's Power (2018)
edited by
John Freeman

By the Book (2014)
Writers On Literature and the Literary Life
edited by
Pamela Paul

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Awards

	2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : The Bone Clocks
	2005 Richard and Judy Award : Cloud Atlas
	2003 Granta Best of Young British Novelists

Award nominations

	2014 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Bone Clocks
	2011 Walter Scott Prize for Best Historical Novel (nominee) : The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
	2011 Macavity Award for Best Historical Novel (nominee) : The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
	2011 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
	2010 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
	2010 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
	2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Black Swan Green
	2006 Costa Book Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Black Swan Green
	2006 Booker Prize (longlist) : Black Swan Green
	2005 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Cloud Atlas
	2005 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Cloud Atlas
	2004 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Cloud Atlas
	2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : Cloud Atlas
	2004 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Cloud Atlas
	2001 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : Number9dream
	2001 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Number9dream

David Mitchell recommends

The Broken Places (2023)
Russell Franklin
"Sunlit and dark, painful and joyous, The Broken Places follows Ernest Hemingway's child on a lifelong journey. Russell Franklin has crafted a myth-busting novel of rare skill and integrity. Its echoes persist and evolve long after the final pages."

The Mountain in the Sea (2022)
Ray Nayler
"I loved this novel's brain and heart, its hidden traps, sheer propulsion, ingenious world-building and the purity of its commitment to luminous ideas."

I Was the President's Mistress!! (2022)
Miguel Syjuco
"A super-typhoon of a novel. A Babel of rogues, survivors and shape-shifters. A polemic against corruption and greed. A sassy, swerving mini-series, touched by grace and beauty. A Filipino Bonfire of the Vanities for our beleaguered times. An uncompromising work of art."

The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021)
Ruth Ozeki
"This compassionate novel of life, love and loss glows in the dark. Its strange, beautiful pages turn themselves. If you’ve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home."

The Island of Missing Trees (2021)
Elif Shafak
"A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES is balm for our bruised times."

Piranesi (2020)
Susanna Clarke
"What a world Susanna Clarke conjures into being, what a tick-tock-tick-tock of reveals, what a pure protagonist, what a morally squalid supporting cast, what beauty, tension and restraint, and what a pitch-perfect ending. Piranesi is an exquisite puzzle-box far, far bigger on the inside than it is on the outside."

Waste Tide (2019)
Chen Qiufan
"An accomplished eco-techno-thriller with heart and soul."

Census (2018)
Jesse Ball
"Census is a vital testament to selfless love; a psalm to commonplace miracles; and a mysterious evolving metaphor. So kind, it aches."

All Involved (2015)
(All Involved)
Ryan Gattis
"A symphonic, pitch-perfect, superlative novel. It is visceral and adrenalin-fuelled, yet tender and even darkly comic. It is audacious, unflinching and subversive. It doesn't judge. It swallowed me whole."

Stay Up With Me (2013)
Tom Barbash
"Tom Barbash's wise and bittersweet stories map the gulfs between us, and the unexpected connections."

The Buried Giant (2012)
Kazuo Ishiguro
"If forced at knife-point to choose my favourite Ishiguro novel, I’d opt for The Buried Giant. It uses the tropes of fantasy to set up a smoke-screen which the book then, by twists and turns, dispels. This reveal gives the book a shadow-plot, and layers of mystery . . . An ideas-enabler, a metaphor-animator."

Other People's Money (2011)
Justin Cartwright
"Other People's Money is wise, droll and beautiful fiction."

CrocAttack! (2010)
Assaf Gavron
"Unflinching and compassionate."

Cold Skin (2005)
Albert Sánchez Piñol
"A troubling, hammering but glorious novel."

Maps for Lost Lovers (2004)
Nadeem Aslam
"Thoughtful, revealing, lushly written and painful, this timely book deserves the widest audience."

All of Us Strangers (2003)
Taichi Yamada
"Highly recommended. A cerebral and haunting ghost story, which completely wrong-footed me."

Silence (1966)
Shūsaku Endō
"One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . Flawless."

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