David Mitchell

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David Mitchell (born 1969) is an English novelist, born in Southport, Merseyside, and raised in Malvern, Worcestershire. He took a degree in English and American literature and an MA in comparative literature at the University of Kent, then spent several years teaching English in Hiroshima, Japan, where he wrote his first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004) were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Cloud Atlas was filmed in 2012. His later novels include Black Swan Green (2006), The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010), The Bone Clocks (2014), which won the World Fantasy Award, Slade House (2015) and Utopia Avenue (2020). Mitchell has said that all his novels share one universe, whose hidden mythology of warring immortals is most fully mapped in The Bone Clocks. With his wife, Keiko Yoshida, he translated Naoki Higashida's The Reason I Jump, and he was named among Time's 100 most influential people in 2007.

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Books

• The Bone Clocks (2014) · The Bone Clocks / Slade House Core Canon
• Slade House (2015) · The Bone Clocks / Slade House Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 2 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 2 (1 won, 1 nomination)

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