Valery Larbaud

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

Valery Larbaud
Larbaud, c.1900
Born	(1881-08-29)29 August 1881 Vichy, France
Died	2 February 1957(1957-02-02) (aged 75) Vichy, France
Occupation	Writer, translator, critic
Notable works	Fermina Márquez

Rue Cardinal-Lemoine n°71, where he lived from 1919 to 1937

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