David Mitchell

David Mitchell (born 1969) is an English novelist known for ambitious, structurally inventive fiction that interlinks characters and themes across separate books, which he has described as forming a single "macronovel." After university he spent eight years teaching English in Japan, an experience that shaped his debut, Ghostwritten (1999), which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. He is best known for Cloud Atlas (2004), a novel of six nested, interlocking narratives spanning centuries, and The Bone Clocks (2014), which won the World Fantasy Award; both were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His other novels include The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Slade House, and Utopia Avenue. Mitchell has also worked as a screenwriter, co-writing adaptations with the Wachowskis, and as a translator, bringing Naoki Higashida's memoir of autism into English. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2013.