The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, Slade House and Utopia Avenue. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, won the World Fantasy Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys, Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes, among others. In 2018, he won the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. His screenwriting credits include the TV shows Pachinko and Sense8, and the movie Matrix: Resurrections.

In addition, David Mitchell together with KA Yoshida has translated from Japanese two autism memoirs by Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight.

He lives in Ireland.

Compared with almost everything being written now, it is vertiginously ambitious - and brilliant -- The Times Spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful -- Sunday Times Unquestionably a marvel - entirely original among contemporary British novels, revealing its author as, surely, the most impressive fictional mind of his generation -- Observer A world of stories in prose that brings a lump to the throat...David Mitchell has done it again. -- Independent on Sunday Arguably his finest...It will doubtless earn Mitchell his fourth Man Booker nomination and, if there's any justice, his first win. -- Sunday Telegraph However densely charted and richly sketched, this sumptuous imbroglio never drags...Mitchell flexes his prose virtuosity. More than before, those muscles do the heart's work. -- Independent Hugely enjoyable...the descriptions of Dejima and what life there must have been like are extraordinarily accurate -- Literary Review David Mitchell is back with a bang...superb -- Irish Independent A masterpiece -- Scotsman For a tour de force, it's surprisingly nimble, emotionally complex and simply unforgettable. -- Scotland on Sunday 'Ambitious and fascinating...Comparisons to Tolstoy are inevitable, and right on the money.' -- Kirkus Reviews Confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearless writers alive -- Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review spectacularly accomplished and thrillingly suspenseful...a narrative of panoramic span. Mitchell fills his pages with a medley of accents, idioms and speech habits. Prodigiously researched, his book resurrects a place and period with riveting immediacy. ...it brims with rich, involving and affecting humanity -- Peter Kemp, Sunday Times My favourite new novel of the year, by a very long way ... People will still be marvelling at THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET decades after last year's award winners have been forgotten. -- Gary Dalkin, Vector, Books of the Year