Len Ortzen

Len Ortzen was an English writer and translator from French.

Life

Ortzen grew up in the East End of London, and his first novel, Down Donkey Row (1938), was appreciatively reviewed by Hugh Massingham as "a picture, at once faithful and amusing, of the East End".[1] However, his second novel was not so well-received, and thereafter Ortzen stuck to translation and writing non-fiction. In the late 1930s he had moved to Paris,[2] and after the war he and his wife ran a guest house in Brittany.[3]

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Other

References

  1. Hugh Massingham, 'Donkey Row', The Observer,13 March 1938
  2. Ortzen, Rue de Paris, 1939
  3. Ortzen, Our Guests Paid in Francs, 1953.
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