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4	David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known for his centuries-spanning epic novel, ''Literature/CloudAtlas''. ''Literature/TheBoneClocks'' is perhaps his second-best well-known novel and is also highly regarded, to which, he won the 2015 World Fantasy Award.
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6	He is twice nominated for the Man Booker Prize, for his novels ''number9dream'' and the aforementioned ''Cloud Atlas''. He won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for ''Literature/{{Ghostwritten}}'', and the ALA Alex Award for ''Black Swan Green''.
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8	More recently, he has dabbled into screenwriting, having co-written ''Film/TheMatrixResurrections'' with [[Creator/TheWachowskis Lana Wachowski]], who directed the film adaptation of ''Cloud Atlas''.
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10	Not the same as the Creator/{{David Mitchell\|Actor}} on ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook''.
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13	!! Mitchell has written the following novels:
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15	* ''Literature/{{Ghostwritten}}'' (1999)
16	* ''number9dream'' (2001)
17	* ''Literature/CloudAtlas'' (2004)
18	* ''Black Swan Green'' (2006)
19	* ''Literature/TheThousandAutumnsOfJacobDeZoet'' (2010)
20	* ''Literature/TheBoneClocks'' (2014)
21	* ''Literature/SladeHouse'' (2015)
22	* ''Utopia Avenue'' (2020)
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25	!!See also:
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27	* ''Film/TheVoormanProblem'', a short film based on a Mitchell short story.
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31	!! Tropes found in his works include:
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33	* {{Doorstopper}}:
34	** ''Literature/CloudAtlas'' hardcover clocks around 544 pages and ''Literature/TheBoneClocks'' stands for 609 pages.
35	** The upcoming ''Utopia Avenue'' is 608 pages.
36	* RippedFromTheHeadlines: In ''Literature/{{Ghostwritten}}'', the metro sarin attack is heavily based on the real life terrorist attack in Tokyo, 1995.

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