
Éric Vuillard and Mark Polizzotti on The War of the Poor
Author Éric Vuillard and translator Mark Polizzotti discuss being longlisted for the International Booker Prize with their novel The War of the Poor
Éric Vuillard is a writer and filmmaker born in Lyon in 1968 who has written nine award-winning books.
His works include Conquistadors (winner of the 2010 Prix Ignatius J. Reilly), and La bataille d’Occident and Congo (both of which received the 2012 Prix Franz-Hessel and the 2013 Prix Valery-Larbaud). He won the 2017 Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, for L’ordre du jour.