David Mitchell Writer

David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist. He has written six novels, two of which, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has lived in Italy, Japan and Ireland.

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David Mitchell

Birth date	January 12, 1969
Birth place	Southport
Education	University of Kent

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Career start	1999
influenced by	Anton Chekhov Augustine of Hippo Friedrich Nietzsche George Orwell Isaac Asimov Italo Calvino Jorge Luis Borges Joseph Conrad Neil Gaiman Paul Auster Peter Carey (novelist) John Banville Mikhail Bulgakov Richard Wright (author) Ursula K. Le Guin Vladimir Nabokov Don DeLillo Haruki Murakami Muriel Spark Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Russell Hoban Bob Dylan
notable work	Black Swan Green Number9dream Cloud Atlas (novel) Ghostwritten The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

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