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David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist and screenwriter, who has also translated two children's books.
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Born 12 January 1969 · Q40479
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quite liberating, because I won’t be around to take the consequences of this being good, or bad ... But I’m sandwiched between Margaret Atwood , and no doubt some shit-hot other writer [yet to be revealed]. So it better be good. What a historic fool of epochal proportions I’d look, if they opened it in 2114 and it wasn’t any good.
s probably viral, but precautionary antibiotics wouldn
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“quite liberating, because I won’t be around to take the consequences of this being good, or bad ... But I’m sandwiched between Margaret Atwood , and no doubt some shit-hot other writer [yet to be revealed]. So it better be good. What a historic fool of epochal proportions I’d look, if they opened it in 2114 and it wasn’t any good.”
“s probably viral, but precautionary antibiotics wouldn”
“No IEDs hidden in animal corpses. No illegal checkpoints. No legal checkpoints. A park for footy and frisbees, the cathedral, a cinema, a nice Sainsbury”
“cause if we was ... here, say, in a cubby hole in the Black Swan, I might”
“s spotless. Toseland tells me how Doctor Shariba left the base alive and well and cheerful at 16:00 hours after helping us establish the facts. Toseland made me repeat it, three times, like we was Freemasons. Alive and well and cheerful. Toseland isn”
“is that my stammer is a person, and it wants to exist, and if I try to stamp it out, it will try to stamp me out.”
“It gives her the humility and self-effacement of a Japanese woman of the era - just through choice of words, through the abolition of the pronoun”
“I think about register; I think about the social background of characters, the level of education.”
“you have to become a stronger, kinder, more compassionate, more patient, tougher, clear-sighted person”
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London Evening Standard: Huge blow to David Mitchell as Ludwig star’s BBC show is axed after three series
Yahoo News UK: David Mitchell confirms Upstart Crow future after BBC talks over Christmas special
The Irish Sun: Huge blow to David Mitchell as Peep Show star’s BBC show is AXED after three series
BBC: Why David Mitchell thinks we're so in love with 'cosy crime'
The Guardian: TV tonight: David Mitchell’s crime-solving Ludwig returns
Yahoo: How to watch Ludwig season 2 online for free: stream return of David Mitchell's genius detective
Yahoo: Ludwig Season 2 Trailer Gives David Mitchell His Strangest Cases Yet
AOL: David Mitchell Gives Exciting ‘Ludwig’ Season 3 Update
The Guardian: ‘You’re finally dressing your age, David!’ Mitchell and Webb on age, arguments and their big comeback
The Guardian: David Mitchell: ‘If I need cheering up, Jamie Oliver’s recipes usually help’
The Guardian: David Mitchell: ‘The world still thinks autistic people don’t do emotions’
The Guardian: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell review – endless prog rock noodling
The Guardian: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell review – a musical journey
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Mitchell and his wife translated a second book by Higashida, Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism
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Awarded World Fantasy Awards (2015).
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Awarded World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for The Bone Clocks (2015).
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Mitchell contributed plotting and scripted scenes for the second season of the Netflix series Sense8 by the Wachowskis, writing the series finale together with Aleksandar Hemon
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“dollops of the fantastic in it”
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2013).
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Translated a book into English that was 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
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His metafictional novel Cloud Atlas (again, with multiple narrators), was adapted as a feature film of the same name
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“Right now I’m working on a book set in the thirty years on either side of 2010, but I shouldn’t give too many details or the next thing you know it’s on Wikipedia and if I change my mind and decide to recast King Lear in a pond of frogs and toads I’ll just give a hardworking Wikipedian an extra headache.”
“As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.”
“What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.”
“Ghostwritten’s secret agenda is to offer up eight different answers to the question, "Why do things happen?" so it has the right to monkey about with time and history. number9dreams’s secret agenda is to offer eight different answers to the question, "In what space does the mind operate?”
Was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, joining such writers as Adam Thirlwell, Andrew O'Hagan, Philip Hensher, A
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I was too easily distracted to do much about it
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Born 1969-01-12.
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And was "fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss"
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