Author Éric Vuillard and translator Mark Polizzotti discuss being longlisted for the International Booker Prize with their novel The War of the Poor
Mark Polizzotti
Mark Polizzotti has translated more than 50 books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, André Breton, and Raymond Roussel
His translation of Éric Vuillard’s The Order of the Day was a finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Award. A Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the recipient of a 2016 American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature. Polizzotti is the author of eleven books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited, and Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto.
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Éric Vuillard tells the story of a man whose life casts light on the brutal times in which he lived - a period when, yet again, Europe was in flux
Translated by Mark Polizzotti