Ghostwritten (1999) • number9dream (2001) • Cloud Atlas (2004) • Black Swan Green (2006) • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) • The Reason I Jump (English translation, with KA Yoshida, of Naoki Higashida’s memoir, 2013) • The Bone Clocks (2014) • From Me Flows What You Call Time (2014, short story for the Future Library project) • Slade House (2015) • Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8 (English translation, with KA Yoshida, of Naoki Higashida’s memoir, 2017) • “Earthlings” (2018, short story for Oxfam Water Futures), and Utopia Avenue (2020) •
David Mitchell’s first novel, Ghostwritten, was published in 1999. It was awarded the Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys prize for the best book by a writer under thirty-five, and was also shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, number9dream, followed in 2001 and was shortlisted for the booker Prize as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
In 2003, David Mitchell was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. He also returned to Britain from Japan, where he spent several years, and now lives in Ireland. In 2016, he handed the manuscript to the Future Library called From Me Flows What You Call Time. This text was preceded by Slade House in 2015 and followed by Utopia Avenue in 2020.