David Mitchell (author)

David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist and screenwriter. He has written nine novels, two of which, number9dream and Cloud Atlas, were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2007, Mitchell was listed among Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in The World.

About David Mitchell (author) in brief

David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist and screenwriter. He has written nine novels, two of which, number9dream and Cloud Atlas, were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Mitchell’s first novel, Ghostwritten, moves around the globe, from Okinawa to Mongolia to pre-Millennial New York City. In 2007, Mitchell was listed among Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in The World. In August 2019, it was announced that Mitchell would continue his collaboration with Lana Wachowski and Aleksandar Hemon on the fourth film in The Matrix series, writing the screenplay with them. Mitchell was the second author to contribute to the Future Library project and delivered his book From Me Flows What You Call Time on 28 May 2016. Utopia Avenue, Mitchell’s ninth novel, was published by Hodder & Stoughton on 14 July 2020.

Mitchell currently lives with his wife, Keiko Yoshida, and their two children in Ardfield, County Cork, Ireland. He considers The King’s Speech to be one of the most accurate portrayals of what it’s like to be a stammerer. He also has a stammer and considers himself to be the subject of the film The King’s Speech, which he has stammered over and over since the first time he saw it. He is also the author of the opera Wake, based on the 2000 Enschede fireworks disaster and with music by Klaas de Vries, which was performed by the Dutch Nationale Reisopera in 2010. Mitchell has also written opera libretti, including Sunken Garden, which premiered in 2013 by the English National Opera.

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