 Nino Frank was born in Barletta, in the southern region of Apulia, a busy port town on Italy's Adriatic coast.In the late 1920s, Frank was a supporter of the Irish writer James Joyce, along with a circle that also included Moune Gilbert, Stuart Gilbert (who helped to make the French translation of "Ulysses" in 1929), Paul and Lucie Léon, Louis Gillet, and Samuel Beckett.In 1937, Frank conferred a great deal with Joyce about the Italian translation of Joyce's "Anna Livia Plurabelle".