David Mitchell
Also recorded as David Stephen Mitchell · David Henry Mitchell
David Mitchell
- Born
- 1969
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- writer · linguist · novelist · science fiction writer · translator · text writer · actor · composer · screenwriter · teacher
- Fields
- science fiction · high literature · fantasy · drama
- Known for
- Ghostwritten · Number9dream · Cloud Atlas · Black Swan Green · The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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David Mitchell was born on 12 January 1969.
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- 1.Mitchell, David. Royal Society of Literature. 2023-09-01.
- 2.Begley, Interviewed by Adam. David Mitchell, The Art of Fiction No. 204. The Paris Review. Summer 2010. 193. 2010.
- 3.Harris-Birtill, Rose. David Mitchell's Post-Secular World: Buddhism, Belief and the Urgency of Compassion. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. 978-1-350-07859-8.
- 4.Gibbons, Fiachra. Readers pick top Guardian books. The Guardian. 6 November 1999.
- 5.Man Booker Prize Archive.
- 6.Mitchell, D. Best of Young British Novelists 2003: The January Man. Granta. 81. 2003.
- 7.The Bookseller. New David Mitchell novel out next autumn. 26 November 2013.
- 8.Interview with a writer: David Mitchell. The Spectator. 25 January 2013.
- 9.Flood, Alison. David Mitchell buries latest manuscript for a hundred years. The Guardian. 30 May 2016.
- 10.World Fantasy Awards. Winners.
- 11.David Mitchell is the Second Author to Join the Future Library Project of 2114. Tor.com. 31 May 2016.
- 12.The Future Library Project: In 100 years, this forest will be harvested to print David Mitchell's latest work. CBC Radio.
- 13.Mitchell, David. Utopia Avenue. Hodder & Stoughton. 2 June 2020. 9781444799446.
- 14.Flood, Alison. David Mitchell announces Utopia Avenue, his first novel in five years. The Guardian. 2019-09-26. 0261-3077.
- 15.Dee, Jonathan. What Happens When David Mitchell Writes a Rock Novel?. The New Yorker. 29 June 2020.
- 16.Yagoda, Ben. Still More Anatopism!. Not One-Off Britishims. 14 December 2021.
- 17.'Sense8': Production begins on Netflix special. EW.com.
- 18.Hemon, Aleksandar. The Transformative Experience of Writing for "Sense8". The New Yorker. 27 September 2017. 0028-792X.
- 19.The Transformative Experience of Writing for "Sense8". The New Yorker. 1 May 2010.
- 20.Link to video. 21 July 2017.
- 21.Kroll, Justin. 'Matrix 4' Officially a Go With Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Lana Wachowski. Variety. 20 August 2019.
- 22.David Mitchell. Article by Mitchell describing how he became involved in Wake. Guardian. 8 May 2010.
- 23.Vanderaa.net. Details of Sunken Garden from Van der Aa's official website. 9 June 2013.
- 24."Kai and Sunny: Publishing".
- 25.Olson, Danel. David Mitchell. Weird Fiction Review. 9. 384–404. Winter 2018.
- 26.Randomhouse.com. Bold Type: Essay by David Mitchell.
- 27."Lost for words" , David Mitchell, Prospect magazine, 23 February 2011, Issue No. 180
- 28.British Stammering Association. Black Swan Green revisited. Speaking Out. Spring 2011.
- 29.Mitchell, David. David Mitchell: almost everything I'd been told about my son's autism was wrong. New Statesman. 2017-07-08.
- 30.Doherty, Mike. Like Travellers from a Distant Past: Writing About Autism. Hazlitt. August 28, 2013.
- 31.Tisdale, Sallie. Voice of the Voiceless. New York Times. 23 August 2013.
- 32.Mitchell, David. The Path to Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight. BBC Radio 4.
- 33.Doherty, Mike. David Mitchell on translating—and learning from—Naoki Higashida. Maclean's. 13 July 2017.
- 34.Mitchell, David. Kate Bush and me: David Mitchell on being a lifelong fan of the pop poet. The Guardian. 7 December 2018.
- 35.Author David Mitchell on working with 'hero' Kate Bush. 11 September 2014.
- 36.Fabiana Bianchi. Sense8 a Napoli, svelato il titolo dell'attesa puntata finale girata in città. Napolike. 2 October 2017.
- 37.Aleksandar Hemon. The Transformative Experience of Writing for "Sense8". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. 27 September 2017.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- "The world begins its turn with you, or how David Mitchell's novels think". In B. Schoene. The Cosmopolitan Novel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
- Dillon, S. (ed.). David Mitchell: Critical Essays. Kent: Gylphi, 2011.
- Bentley, Nick. Trailing Postmodernism : David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Zadie Smith's NW, and the Metamodern. English Studies. 99. 7. 723–43. 2018. 10.1080/0013838X.2018.1510611.
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David Mitchell was recorded at birth as David Stephen Mitchell. The authorities additionally record the headings David Stephen Mitchell and David Henry Mitchell. His recorded languages were English and Japanese. Formation and teaching. Mitchell studied at University of Kent and Hanley Castle High School. His recorded influences include Haruki Murakami, Italo Calvino, Don DeLillo, John Banville and Vladimir Nabokov. Mitchell worked in English-language literature, fiction, comparative literature, American studies and English studies. He worked at Sicily, Hiroshima and Malvern. Work and production. Works recorded as notable number 5: Ghostwritten, Number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. His recorded genres are science fiction, high, fantasy and drama. Mitchell received John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, World Fantasy Awards, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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