David Mitchell's first novel, GHOSTWRITTEN, was published in 1999, when it won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, NUMBER9DREAM, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and in 2003 he was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. His third novel, CLOUD ATLAS, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the South Bank Show Literature Prize, and the Best Literary Fiction and Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year categories in the British Book Awards. It was shortlisted for a further six awards including the Man Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize and has been made into a feature film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, released in the UK in February 2013. His fourth novel, BLACK SWAN GREEN, was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His most recent novel, THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2010.
Born in 1969, David Mitchell grew up in Worcestershire. After graduating from Kent University, he spent several years teaching in Japan, and now lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
