Valery Larbaud

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.

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.

Books

 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

Category:1881 births
Category:1957 deaths
Category:French poets
Category:French novelists