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Introduction
David Mitchell is a prominent English novelist, television writer, and screenwriter. He has written nine novels, two of which, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written articles for several newspapers, most notably for The Guardian, and translated books about autism from Japanese to English.
Early life
| Name | David Mitchell |
| Net Worth | $3 million |
| Occupation | Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter |
| Age | 54 years |
| Height | 1.78m |
David Stephen Mitchell was born on January 12, 1969 (age 54 years) in Southport in Lancashire (now Merseyside), England. He was raised in Malvern, Worcestershire. He was educated at Hanley Castle High School and at the University of Kent, where he obtained a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature.
Mitchell lived in Sicily for a year, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England, where he could live on his earnings as a writer and support his pregnant wife.
Career
David Mitchell’s first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), takes place in locations ranging from Okinawa in Japan to Mongolia to pre-Millennial New York City, as nine narrators tell stories that interlock and intersect. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for best work of British literature written by an author under 35) and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.
Mitchell’s two subsequent novels, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004) were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. In 2007, Mitchell was listed among Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in The World.
In 2012, his metafictional novel Cloud Atlas (again, with multiple narrators), was made into a feature film. One segment of number9dream was made into a BAFTA-nominated short film in 2013 starring Martin Freeman, titled The Voorman Problem. He has also written opera libretti in recent years. Wake, based on the 2000 Enschede fireworks disaster and with music by Klaas de Vries, was performed by the Dutch Nationale Reisopera in 2010.
He has also finished another opera, Sunken Garden, with the Dutch composer Michel van der Aa, which premiered in 2013 by the English National Opera. Several of Mitchell’s book covers were created by design duo Kai and Sunny. Mitchell has also collaborated with the duo, by contributing two short stories to their art exhibits in 2011 and 2014.
Mitchell’s sixth novel, The Bone Clocks, was published on 2 September 2014. In an interview in The Spectator, Mitchell said that the novel has “dollops of the fantastic in it”, and is about “stuff between life and death”. The Bone Clocks was longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. He was the second author to contribute to the Future Library project and delivered his book From Me Flows What You Call Time on 28 May 2016.
Utopia Avenue, Mitchell’s ninth novel, was published by Hodder & Stoughton on 14 July 2020. Utopia Avenue tells the “unexpurgated story” of a British band of the same name, who emerged from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and was “fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss”, said publisher Sceptre.
Following the release of the 2012 film adaptation of Cloud Atlas, Mitchell commenced work as a screenwriter alongside Lana Wachowski (one of Cloud Atlas’ three directors). In 2015, Mitchell contributed plotting and scripted scenes for the second season of the Netflix series Sense8 by the Wachowskis, who had adapted the novel for the screen, and together with Aleksandar Hemon they wrote the series finale.
Mitchell had signed a contract to write season three of the series before Netflix’s cancellation of the show. In August 2019, it was announced that Mitchell would continue his collaboration with Lana Wachowski and Hemon to write the screenplay for The Matrix Resurrections with them.
In an essay for Random House, Mitchell wrote: I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was a kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. I would probably have become a writer wherever I lived, but would I have become the same writer if I’d spent the last six years in London, Cape Town, or Moose Jaw, on an oil rig, or in the circus? This is my answer to myself.
Mitchell has a stammer and considers the film The King’s Speech (2010) to be one of the most accurate portrayals of what it is like to be a stammerer: “I’d probably still be avoiding the subject today had I not outed myself by writing a semi-autobiographical novel, Black Swan Green, narrated by a stammering 13-year-old.” Mitchell is also a patron of the British Stammering Association.
Mitchell’s son is autistic. In 2013, he and his wife Yoshida translated a book written by Naoki Higashida, a 13-year-old Japanese autistic boy, titled The Reason I Jump: One Boy’s Voice from the Silence of Autism. Higashida allegedly learned to communicate using the discredited techniques of facilitated communication and rapid prompting method. In 2017, Mitchell and his wife translated the follow-up book also attributed to Higashida, Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism.
David Mitchell author Wife
David Mitchell is married to his wife Keiko Mitchell. After another stint in Japan, Mitchell and his wife, Keiko Yoshida, live in Ardfield, County Cork, Ireland, as of 2018. The couple has two children.
David Mitchell author net worth
How much is David Mitchell worth? David Mitchell author net worth is estimated at around $3 million. His main source of income is from his primary work as an author. His salary per month and other career earnings are over $245,000 dollars annually. David Mitchell’s remarkable career achievements have earned him some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. He is one of the richest and most influential authors in the United Kingdom. He stands at an appealing height of 1.78m and has a good body weight which suits his personality.