Jerome Lindon - Jean|polizzotti Echenoz

Jean Echenoz was born in 1947 in Vaucluse, France. He is the author of more than a a dozen novels, including Cherokee, Double Jeopardy, Chopin's Move, Big Blondes, Piano, Ravel, Running, Lightning, and Special Envoy. His work has received a great number of literary prizes, among them the Prix Goncourt, the Prix Médicis, and the European Literature Jeopardy Prize. He lives in Paris. \nTRANSLATOR BIO: \n \nMark Polizzotti has translated more than sixty books from the French, including Arthur Rimbaud's The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings and Jean Echenoz's Command Performance, and is the author of thirteen books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, Why Surrealism Matters, and Jump Cuts: Essays. He has translated Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo (Archipelago Books) and his translation of Mukasonga's Murmurs from the Hills is forthcoming with Archipelago. He lives in New York.\n