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Valery Larbaud

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Valery Larbaud
Larbaud, c.1900
Larbaud, c.1900
Born(1881-08-29)29 August 1881
Vichy, France
Died2 February 1957(1957-02-02) (aged 75)
Vichy, France
OccupationWriter, translator, critic
Notable worksFermina Márquez
Rue Cardinal-Lemoine n°71, where he lived from 1919 to 1937

Valery Larbaud (29 August 1881 – 2 February 1957) was a French writer, poet, and translator.

Larbaud's most famous book is Fermina Marquez. It came out in 1911. It is about a beautiful girl's visit to a boys boarding school.[1]

Larbaud is well-known for translating important writing in English into French. He translated work by Sir Thomas Browne, the English novelist Samuel Butler, the U.S. poet Walt Whitman, and James Joyce.[1]

  • Poèmes par un riche amateur (1908) as A.O. Barnabooth.
  • Fermina Márquez (1911)
  • A.O. Barnabooth (1913)
  • Enfantines (1918)
  • Beauté, mon beau souci (1920)
  • Amants, heureux amants (1923)
  • Mon plus secret conseil... (1923)
  • Ce Vice impuni, la lecture : domaine anglais (1925)
  • Jaune bleu blanc (1927)
  • Aux couleurs de Rome (1938)
  • Ce Vice impuni, la lecture : domaine français (1941)
  • Sous l'invocation de saint Jérôme (1946)
  • Chez Chesterton
  • Ode à une blanchisseuse

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Valery-Nicolas Larbaud | French author | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-03-10.