WRITER

David Mitchell

1969 - Today

David Mitchell

David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Mitchell has received more than 122,593 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. David Mitchell is the 5,729th most popular writer (down from 5,277th in 2019), the 4,465th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,263rd in 2019) and the 505th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

120k
Page Views (PV)
45.18
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
36
Languages Editions (L)
3.65
Effective Languages (L*)
4.16
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Ghostwritten

2000

Cloud Atlas

Fate and fatalism, Fiction, Reincarnation

From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope. A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; an ambitious journalist in Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing the mendicant and violent family of his star author; a genetically modified “dinery server” on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other’s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small. In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity’ s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us

2004

Black Swan Green

Boys, Villages, Fiction

A novel. From hardcover: "Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying Cold War England, 1982."

2006

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

East and West, Trading posts, Fiction

The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the “high-walled, fan-shaped artificial island” that is the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war-ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and typhoons comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk who has five years in the East to earn a fortune of sufficient size to win the hand of his wealthy fiancée back in Holland. But Jacob’s original intentions are eclipsed after a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city’s powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken. The consequences will extend beyond Jacob’s worst imaginings. As one cynical colleague asks, “Who ain’t a gambler in the glorious Orient, with his very life?” ([source][1]) [1]: http://www.davidmitchellbooks.com/book/the-thousand-autumns-of-jacob-de-zoet/

2010

Number9dream

2001

British Railways Past and Present

1991

Page views of David Mitchells by language

Over the past year David Mitchell has had the most page views in the Russian wikipedia edition with 24,205 views, followed by German (16,353), and English (7,421). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Occitan (120.63%), Kirghiz (92.54%), and Vietnamese (91.59%)