David Mitchell

Author, "Slade House"

David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, Ghostwritten and The Bone Clocks. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell co-translated from the Japanese the international bestselling memoir, The Reason I Jump. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.

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There’s a Good Reason Darth Vader Is Interesting While Superman Is Just Boring

Archetypes are dull as ditchwater. The ‘Cloud Atlas’ author is much fonder of nuance.

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David Mitchell