![]() ![]() ![]() “Literary” and “rock star” don’t usually go together, but let’s call it how it is: Mr Mitchell is a literary rock star. ![]() Mr Mitchell cowrote that (with Ms Lana Wachowski and Mr Aleksandar Hemon). And, if you’re an older millennial like me, odds are you’re pretty excited (ie, giddy) about the next instalment in The Matrix cinematic universe. Last year, Cloud Atlas made the top 10 in The Guardian’s 100 best books of the 21st century, coming in at a not too shabby number nine. In 2007, Time magazine ranked him number 16 in its 100 Most Influential People In The World (sandwiched between Mr John Mayer at number 15 and Ms Kate Moss at number 17). His follow-ups, 2001’s number9dream and 2004’s Cloud Atlas, were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of Mr David Mitchell’s achievements. His debut novel, Ghostwritten, published in 1999, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. ![]()
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