Len Ortzen (18 December 1912 – 15 January 1979) was an English writer and translator from French.
[1] He 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".
[2] 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,[3] and after the war he and his wife ran a guest house in Brittany.
[5][6] Ortzen died of cancer in Stroud, Gloucestershire, on 15 January 1979.