David Mitchell is the acclaimed author of the novels Cloud Atlas, which was a Man Booker Prize finalist and which was recently made into a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks; Black Swan Green, which was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by Time; Number9Dream, which was short-listed for the Man Booker as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Ghostwritten, awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for best book by a writer under thirty-five and short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award; and most recently, The Thousand Autums of Jacob de Zoet. He lives in Ireland.

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