Leif Borthen (25 January 1911,[1] in Trondheim – 9 June 1979, in Ibiza) was a Norwegian journalist and author.
He spent part of the year working as a fisherman in Mallorca, where he lived in a colony of artists which included Jacob Brinchmann and Paul René Gauguin, the grandson of the French artist Paul Gauguin.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Borthen went to London, England, later to Argentina, where he worked in the Norwegian embassy in Buenos Aires as press attaché from 1945 until 1950.
It was called Reise til Peróns rike ("Travel to Peron's Empire") which was published in 1952.
He also made appearances on the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), and contributed to the leading Norwegian daily newspaper Verdens Gang,[1] under the pseudonym Don Segundo, with articles on the cinema, cookery and current affairs.