Michel Leiris
Martínez Sarrión is also a remarkable translator of French. He has made one of the best Spanish versions of the "Les fleurs du Mal" (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire, and has also translated Victor Hugo's work "Lo que dice la boca de sombra y otros poemas" (What the shadow mouth says and other poems), "Stendhal Translating Award" in 1990. Other authors whose work he translated into Spanish are Jean Genet, Michel Leiris, Alfred de Musset, Chamfort, Jacottet and Arthur Rimbaud.