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4 unusual facts about Victor Llona


Victor Llona

In 1946 he returned to the US and became a translator for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

With the help of a native Russian he was also able to translate several Russian works, from Alexis Tolstoï, Nikolai Gogol and Elie Ilf.

He also wrote two novels in French, one about the Ku Klux Klan, one about prohibition in the States.

He met them in the apartments of Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) and Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) or at the English library of Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), the first publisher in 1922 of James Joyce's Ulysses.



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