Lucien d'Azay.

Lucien d’Azay is a novelist, essayist, and translator from English and Italian. He has published some fifteen works combining biography, flânerie, and keepsake, in which portraits, intimate memories, and literary reminiscences echo one another. Among his best-known books are Le Faussaire et son double (Les Belles Lettres, 2009), a fictionalized biography of Thomas Chatterton, Trois excentriques anglais (2011, winner of the 2012 Revue des Deux Mondes prize), Keats, keepsake (2014), Ashley & Gilda (2016), Un sanctuaire à Skyros (A Sanctuary in Skyros, 2020), La Belle Anglaise. Vie de “Perdita” Robinson (The Beautiful Englishwoman: The Life of “Perdita” Robinson, 2022), and Vénitiennes au peigne fin (Venetian Women Under the Microscope, 2024).

His works combine literary rigor and poetic sensibility, offering readers journeys through time and place, at the crossroads of history and intimacy.

He is the author of Florence Sketchbook, published by Éditions du Pacifique.