Biography
English writer David Mitchell is the author of the novels "Cloud Atlas", "Thousand Autonus Jacob de Zuta", "The meadow of the Black Swan". Twice won a prestigious "bucker" award. He entered the list of the 100 most influential people of the planet.Childhood and youth
David Mitchell was born on January 12, 1969 in Southport (England). The childhood of the future writer passed in Malvern (Worcesterschire county). The desire to become a writer came to young David in 8 years, when the guy read the book about the adventures of rabbits in those years. The work inspired the beginning of the author that David immediately wrote a story on four pages about the adventures of otter, repeating the plot of the read book. As talented children, David wrote poems, but, according to the writer, "they were terrible."
For the artistic development and creative biography of Mitchell influenced parents. As the writer told in an interview, every month was bought on one book, former for David "as a magic wardrobe from Narnia - a door to another reality."
Education David Mitchell received at the University of Kent, studying English and American literature.
Literature
David Mitchell's books are translated into 25 languages. Having lived after graduating from the University of Sicily, in 1994, the future author of popular Romanov moved to Japan to teach English at school. It was assumed to stay in Hiroshima year, but the journey was delayed for eight years.
The first Roman Mitchell "Literary Ghost" saw the light when the writer was 30 years old. The novel said Mitchell as "English Muraki", putting a writer in one rank with English Prosaiki - Lawrence Norfolk, Rachel Kask and others.
In the novel, the "literary ghost" was intertwined by the fate of many outstanding characters: a sectarian preparing an explosion in the Tokyo metro; saxophonist trading in records in the music store; banker performing the order of Russian mafia; Mongolian ghost; Women physics hiding from military intelligence; Former English scout, who became a writer. "The literary ghost" received a John Luellin-Ris Prize as "the best British book written by the author younger than 35 years old."
The second novel David Mitchell "Son No. 9", released in 2001, entered the short list of the bucker premium. The main hero of the novel, Eyji Miyak goes to Tokyo from the provincial Japanese town in search of the Father. A simple story tells about the internal experiences of a guy who has fallen into a tale of a metropolis with a lot of inhabitants with fantastic destinies. Thin details of the circumstances in the plot are forced to truly empathize and worry about the heroes.
In the "Cloud Atlas" of 2004, the author gathered six plots that united the time interval from the middle of the XIX century to the distant future. The hero of the first story in any way is associated with the subsequent history. Roman "Cloud Atlas" nominated for the "buoy" is most famous in the world thanks to the film.
The film "Cloud Atlas", shot by Tom Tykin ("Run, Lola, Run", "Perfume. The story of one killer"), Lilly and Lana Vachovski ("Matrix", "Sunrise Jupiter"), went on screens in 2012. The main roles in the picture performed the Star Status: Tom Hanks, Holly Berry, Jim Broadbent, Ben Weisow, and others. The film with a budget of $ 102 million, called "the most expensive budget film of all time," received the "Saturn" and the Golden Globe "and high Assessment of viewers.
The book "The Luzhok of the Black Swan", released in 2006, surprised by the fans of David Mitchell. A novel, telling about the hero rather than Sallinger, is not like any of the works of the author. The 13th heads of the novel "Luzhok Black Swan" talk about 13 months of life Jason Taylor. The boy secretly composes poems and suffers from stuttering.
Thirteen months of events from the life of Jason will tell about the transformation from an angular, closed teenager in a beautiful young man. The novel "Luzhok of the Black Swan" received several prestigious premiums, and his author by the magazine "Time" is enlisted in the hundreds of the most influential people.
Work on the novel "Thousand Autonomy Jacob de Zutu" took four years from David Mitchell. To create a work that tells about Japan XVIII and XIX centuries, the author studied the smallest details of the culture of the country of that time. The writer conducted a parallel between Japan's times of segun and modern Europe of that time.
The idea of creating a novel originated in 1994, during the stay of Mitchell in the East. David once got to the Dajim Museum in Nagasaki Bay. Seen impressed the author and led to the decision to write about the past of Japan. Hero "Thousands of Aps, Jacob de Zutu" - a young guy from Holland, who came to Japan with a desire to get rich. The circumstances make the hero stay in the country for years, experience joys and deprivation.
In 2014, the expected Roman David Mitchell "Simple Mortals" came out. As in other works of the author, the readers again met with the heroes already familiar to other novels. The heroine of "simple mortals" is a girl named Holly Sykes. Amazing and fantastic narration begins when Holly quarrel with her mother and runs away from home. The chain of events on Earth slowly promotes humanity to the apocalypse, but few have noticed something. Holly finds himself in the epicenter of the confrontation of the dark forces that feed on human souls and guardian angels.
The six heads of the novel trace the life of the girl from the world-old 80s to 2040 - without mobile phones, the Internet and air travel. The actions of the author's novels occur in the same universe, combined with a plug-in novel "Simple mortals." Scene lines of novels often indirectly affect previous works.
On tangential to the plot of "simple mortals", the novel "Hungry House" was held, released in 2015. The work began the path in the form of Halloween stories in Twitter. Roman is a terrible and fascinating story, starting in one of London's alleys. Hero "Hungry House" - ancient mansion with inhabitants living in brutal rules. The horror masters in the literature enthusiastically responded about the work, although the public accepted him ambiguously.
Personal life
David Mitchell met Caico Yoshid in Japan. Young people worked as teachers at school in Hiroshima. According to Japanese Caico, David was not arrogant, like other teachers from America. On the contrary, the young teacher was distinguished by an amazing courtship and attention.
David has strongly studied Japanese culture, according to him, to prove serious intentions and give to understand Caico that he is not just a "annoying Western". The girl lived on weekdays with her mother, and on the weekend she moved to David. Today the writer's wife works by a translator. The couple moved to live in the city of Cork in Ireland, raging two children.
David Mitchell now
In 2016, David Mitchell participated in the project of artist from Scotland Katie Paterson. The art project "Library of the Future" is designed for 100 years and suggests assembled by 2114 the hundreds of unreasonable works of the greatest writers of modernity. Mitchell presented the "library of the future" an unmanufactured manuscript "I exude what you call time."
For 2018, the writer's novels are not announced, although the admirers of the talent of David Mitchell are hoping to continue the plot of "simple mortals", I really want to look at another ten years ahead after the Apocalypse in 2040.
Bibliography
- 1999 - "Literary Ghost"
- 2001 - "Son number 9"
- 2004 - "Cloud Atlas"
- 2006 - "Black Swan Meadow"
- 2010 - "Thousand Axes Jacob de Putu"
- 2014 - "Simple mortals"
- 2015 - "Hungry House"