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". 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, and after the war he and his wife ran a guest house in Brittany.Ortzen, ''Our Guests Paid in Francs'', 1953.

Works

Translations

* ''The Sleep of the Just'' by Mouloud Mammeri. London: Cresset Press, 1956.
* ''Twenty-Five Centuries of Sea Warfare'' by Jacques Mordal, London: Souvenir, 1959.
* ''Ten Steps to Hope'' by Rémy. London: Arthur Barker, 1960.
* ''Princes of Monaco: the remarkable history of the Grimaldi family'' by Françoise de Bernardy. London: A. Barker, 1961.
* ''Napoleon's Mother'' by Alain Decaux. London: Cresset Press, 1962.
* ''The Executioners: a history of the Sanson family, public executioners in France from 1688 to 1847'' by Robert Christophe. London: Cresset Press, 1962.
* ''Toujours Bernardette'' by Cécil Saint-Laurent. London: Arthur Barker, 1963.
* ''Lonely victory: Atlantic race 1964'' by Eric Tabarly. London: Souvenir, 1964.
* ''Napoleon on Elba'' by Robert Christophe. London: Macdonald, 1964.
* ''The Secrets of D-Day'' by Gilles Perrault. London: Arthur Baker, 1964.
* ''Where Goldfish Go: a novel'' by Claude Cattaert. London: Phoenix House, 1965.
* ''Enrico Fermi: The man and his theories'' by Pierre de Latil. Edited by Jacques Ahrweiler. London: Souvenir Press, 1965.
* ''The Great Days of the Cape Horners'' by Yves Le Scal. London: Souvenir Press, 1966.
* ''Augustus and Nero: The secret of empire'' by Gilbert Charles-Picard. London: Phoenix House, 1966.
* ''Peoples, seas and ships in the ancient world'' by Zvi Herman. London: Phoenix House, 1966.
* ''Master water ski-ing'' by Gérald Maurois and Maxime Vazeille. London: Souvenir Press, 1966.
* ''The Bugatti story'' by L'Ebé Bugatti. London: Souvenir Press, 1967.
* ''The hunt for German scientists, 1946-60'' by Michael Bar-Zohar. London: Arthur Barker, 1967.
* ''The Armed Prophet: a biography of Ben Gurion'' by Michael Bar-Zohar. London: Arthur Barker, 1967.
* ''Sapphira'' by Jacques Gall and François Gall. London: Souvenir Press, 1967.
* ''The Red Orchestra'' by Gilles Perrault. London: Barker, 1968.
* ''The Tangled Web'' by Philippe Ganier-Raymond, London: Arthur Barker, 1968.
* ''The Avengers'' by Michael Bar-Zohar, London: Arthur Barker, 1968.
* ''Hunters of the Arctic'' by Roger Frison-Roche. London: Souvenir Press, 1969.
* ''North African writing''. London, etc.: Heinemann Educational Books, 1970. African Writers Series, no. 73.
* ''The Way to the Sun'' by Robert Beylen. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971.
* ''Heirs to the past'' by Driss Chraïbi. London: Heinemann, 1971. African Writers Series, no. 79.
* ''Pen Duick'' by Eric Tabarly. London: Coles, 1971.
* ''Panjamon'' by Jean Yves Domalain. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972.
* ''The second death of Ramón Mercader'' by Jorge Semprún. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973.
* ''Tribal scars, and other stories'' by Sembene Ousmane. London, etc.: Heinemann, 1974. African Writers Series, no. 142.
* ''Riders of the wind'' by Hans G. Kresse. London: Methuen, 1975.
* ''Masters of thunder'' by Hans G. Kresse. London: Methuen, 1975.

Other

* ''Down Donkey Row'', London: Cresset Press, 1938.
* ''The Two Husbands'', London, 1939.
* ''Rue de Paris'', London, 1939.
* ''The Gallic Land: Country life in France'', London: Phoenix House, 1952.
* ''Our Guests Paid in Francs'', London, 1953.
* ''Just Across the Channel'', London: Phoenix House, 1954.
* ''Your Guide to the Loire Valley'', London: Alvin Redman, 1968.
* ''Stories of famous disasters at sea'', London: Barker, 1969.
* ''Famous lifeboat rescues'', London: Barker, 1971.
* ''Famous Arctic adventures'', London: Barker, 1972.
* ''Stories of famous submarines'', London: Barker, 1973.
* ''Stories of famous sea raiders'', London: Barker, 1973.
* ''Imperial Venus: the story of Pauline Bonaparte-Borghese'', London: Constable, 1974.
* ''Stories of famous shipwrecks'', London: Barker, 1974.
* ''Stories of great exploration'', London: Barker, 1975.
* ''Stories of famous survivals'', London: Barker, 1975.
* ''Guns at sea: the world's great naval battles'', London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. Foreword by Ludovic Kennedy.
* ''Strange mysteries of the sea'', London: Barker, 1976.
* ''Strange stories of UFOs'', London: A. Barker, 1977.
* ''Stories of famous fighting ships. Vol. 1, In the days of steam'', London: A. Barker, 1978.
* ''Fighting ships in the age of steam'', London: A. Barker, 1978.
* ''Famous stories of the Resistance''. London: A. Barker, 1979.

References

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French–English translators
20th-century English novelists
Year of birth missing
Possibly living people
English male novelists
20th-century English male writers