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| birth_place = [[Vichy]], [[Allier]], [[French Third Republic]]<br />
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| death_place = Vichy, Allier, [[French Fourth Republic]]<br />
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| education = [[Lycée Louis-le-Grand]]<br />
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| notable_works = ''[[Fermina Márquez]]''<br />
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[[File:P1020580 Paris V Rue Cardinal-Lemoine n°71 rwk.JPG|thumb|225px|Rue Cardinal-Lemoine n°71, where he lived from 1919 to 1937]]<br />
'''Valery Larbaud''' (29 August 1881 – 2 February 1957) was a French writer and poet.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Valery-Nicolas-Larbaud | title=britanica | access-date=18 April 2016}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
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He was born in [[Vichy]], the only child of a [[pharmacist]] Nicolas Larbaud and Isabelle Bureau des Étivaux. His father died when he was 8, and he was brought up by his mother and aunt. His father had been owner of the ''[[Vichy Saint-Yorre]]'' mineral water springs, and the family fortune assured him an easy life. He travelled Europe in style. On luxury liners and the [[Orient Express]] he carried off the [[dandy]] role, with [[spa]] visits to nurse fragile health.<br />
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''Poèmes par un riche amateur'', published in 1908, received [[Octave Mirbeau]]'s vote for ''[[prix Goncourt]]''. Three years later, his novel ''[[Fermina Márquez]]'', inspired by his days as a boarder at Sainte-Barbe-des-Champs at [[Fontenay-aux-Roses]], had some ''prix Goncourt'' votes in 1911 but did not win; nonetheless, it is still considered to be a minor classic of French literature and one of Larbaud's best known works.<br />
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He spoke six languages including English, Italian and Spanish. In France he helped translate and popularise [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[Walt Whitman]], [[Samuel Butler (novelist)|Samuel Butler]], and [[James Joyce]], whose ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' was translated by Auguste Morel (1924–1929) under Larbaud's supervision.<br />
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At home in Vichy, he saw as friends [[Charles-Louis Philippe]], [[André Gide]], [[Léon-Paul Fargue]] and [[Georges Jean-Aubry|Jean Aubry]], his future biographer. An attack of [[hemiplegia]] and [[aphasia]] in 1935 left him paralysed. Having spent his fortune, he had to sell his property and 15,000 book library. Despite his illness, he continued to receive many honorary titles, and in 1952 he was awarded the [[Grand prix national des Lettres]].<br />
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The ''[[prix Valery Larbaud]]'' was created in 1967 by ''L'Association Internationale des Amis de Valery Larbaud'', a group founded to promote the author's work. Past winners of this yearly award include [[Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio|J.M.G. Le Clézio]], [[Jacques Réda]], [[Emmanuel Carrère]], and [[Jean Rolin (writer)|Jean Rolin]].<br />
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==Works ==<br />
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* ''Poèmes par un riche amateur'' (1908) as A.O. Barnabooth.<br />
* ''[[Fermina Márquez]]'' (1911)<br />
* ''A.O. Barnabooth'' (1913)<br />
* ''Enfantines'' (1918)<br />
* ''Beauté, mon beau souci'' (1920)<br />
* ''Amants, heureux amants'' (1923)<br />
* ''Mon plus secret conseil...'' (1923)<br />
* ''Ce Vice impuni, la lecture : domaine anglais'' (1925)<br />
* ''Jaune bleu blanc'' (1927)<br />
* ''Aux couleurs de Rome'' (1938)<br />
* ''Ce Vice impuni, la lecture : domaine français'' (1941)<br />
* ''Sous l'invocation de saint Jérôme'' (1946)<br />
* ''Chez Chesterton''<br />
* ''Ode à une blanchisseuse''<br />
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==References==<br />
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* MOUSLI, Béatrice, "Valery Larbaud", coll. Grandes Biographies, Paris, Pub. Flammarion, 1998, Grand Prix de la Biographie de l’Académie Française 1998.<br />
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* MOUSLI, Béatrice, "Voyager avec Valery Larbaud", Paris, Pub. La Quinzaine/Louis Vuitton, 2003.<br />
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* France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). ''The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French.'' Oxford: Clarendon Press. {{ISBN|0-19-866125-8}}.<br />
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* [https://wikilivres.org/wiki/Valery_Larbaud Works by Valery Larbaud]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} (public domain in Canada)<br />
* Inventory and analysis of Valery Larbaud's non-novelistic writings [http://tsar.mcgill.ca/bibliographie/Valery_Larbaud Université McGill: le roman selon les romanciers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613142010/http://tsar.mcgill.ca/bibliographie/Valery_Larbaud |date=2021-06-13 }} {{in lang|fr}}<br />
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