Levon Larents was born in 1875 in the
Samatya district of
Istanbul,
Ottoman Empire. He received his education at the local
Robert College where he graduated in 1902. During his time as a student in Robert College, Larents along with classmates Yenovk Armen and Hrand Esayan published the
Zepur Armenian periodical. For a brief period after his graduation, Larents was a contributor to the
Puzantion newspaper. He eventually moved to
Alexandria,
Egypt when worked in Orosdi Back, a wholesale company. However, after the death of
Arpiar Arpiarian, Larents moved to
Athens,
Greece. After the Young Turk revolution in 1908, Larents returned to Constantinople where he became the chief-editor of
Murj and
Tsayn Hayreneats for two years. While in Constantinople, Larents published a book of poems entitled
Trahkdi Yerker or "Songs of Heaven". He also translated numerous works from French and English into Armenian. One such work was a translation of
H. F. B. Lynch's "Armenia" which was published in 1913. In 1911, he had also translated the
Quran into Armenian. ==Death==