Adrian Nathan West

Adrian Nathan West is an American writer, critic, and literary translator. He has published the novel-essay ''The Aesthetics of Degradation'' (2016), translated in German and Dutch, and the novel ''My Father’s Diet'' (2022). Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Joshua Cohen has called West “one of our best novelists.”

West is a literary translator from several languages, primarily Spanish, German, Catalan, and French. He is known for his translation of ''When We Cease to Understand the World'', by Chilean author Benjamín Labatut, which was supported by an award from English PEN, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, and the National Book Award for Translated Literature, and also selected by Barack Obama for his annual Summer Reading List in 2021. He has also received the Austrian Cultural Forum’s Translation Prize in 2017 for his translation of Josef Winkler’s The Abduction and the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award in 2024 for his translation of Open Heart by Elvira Lindo. He is the English-language translator of Swiss author Hermann Burger.

West is a wide-ranging literary critic and essayist, with writing on subjects such as philosophy, pornography, masculinity, drug use, American cultural phenomena, Spanish art and literature, and books in translation. His work has been published in ''The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Baffler, The Washington Examiner, The Times Literary Supplement,'' and others.

In 2022, he was recognized for his exceptional contributions to literature with an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Provided by Wikipedia