David Mitchell is a British writer, creator of two novels that hit the Booker Prize shortlist.
Before career
David Mitchell was born January 12, 1969 in the small British city of Southport, which has 90 thousand inhabitants. After birth, David's family moves to Malvern, an even smaller town in Worcestershire, England.
David began to write short stories at the age of 8 years. Then he was greatly inspired by a read book about the adventures of rabbits. David also wrote small poems, however, as he himself admits, they were "terrible."
In school years, parents bought Mitchell one book a month. He really enjoyed reading, the writer still warmly recalls those books. They are for him "like a magic wardrobe from Narnia - a door to another reality."
David Mitchell graduated from the University of Kent, where he studied American and English literature.
Writer career
In 1994, the author of the novels moved to Japan, where he taught English. Five years later, he wrote his first novel, Literary Ghost. The novel fell in love with readers, and David Mitchell became a popular personality. "English Murakami" is exactly what readers said about him. Soon, for his efforts, the writer received the John Luellin-Rees Prize as "the best British book written by an author under the age of 35 years."
David continued to create and become an increasingly successful writer. In 2001, he released the novel "Dream No. 9". The book became equally popular and sold and even hit the shortlist of the Booker Prize.
After in 2004, the author writes a book called "Cloud Atlas", which was nominated for the "Booker", as well as filmed in 2012. The film with a budget of $ 102 million was called the “most expensive budget film of all time, ” and also received the Saturn and Golden Globe Award.
In 2006, David Mitchell wrote an unusual book, The Meadow of the Black Swan, which surprised readers very much. She is not like his previous novels. It flows 13 months of Jason Taylor's life. The boy secretly writes poetry and suffers from stuttering.
In 2014, David Mitchell’s anticipated Novelty Mortals novel was released, which viewers praised. In 2018, there were no announcements of new novels, however, readers will soon expect the continuation of "Simple Mortals."
