Mark Polizzotti

Mark Polizzotti’s books include Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Highway 61 Revisited, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, Why Surrealism Matters, andJump Cuts: Essays on Surrealism, Film, Music, Culture, and Other Utopian Topics. His writings have appeared in Apollo, Bookforum, The Brooklyn Rail, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. His translations of works by André Breton, Marguerite Duras, Gustave Flaubert, Patrick Modiano, Scholastique Mukasonga, and Arthur Rimbaud, among others, have won or been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, the International Booker Prize, the English PEN Award, the NBCC/Gregg Barrios Prize, and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. A member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, he lives in New York, where he directs the publications program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.