Valery Larbaud

Valery Larbaud was born in Vichy in 1881, the only son of a family made wealthy by the exploitation of a mineral water spring. He was educated as a boarder at a school in the Paris suburbs. A translator and critic, he introduced English- and Spanish-language writers to France and supervised the French translation of a novel by James Joyce. A stroke put an end to his work in 1935. He received the prix national des lettres in 1952 and died in Vichy on 2 February 1957.

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• NovelFermina MarquezFermina MárquezValery Larbaud · 1911Literature