Adrian Nathan West
{{Short description|American writer and translator}}
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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).{{Cite web |date=2021-11-16 |title=My Father's Diet by Adrian Nathan West |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781913505226 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Publishers Weekly}} Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Joshua Cohen has called West “one of our best novelists.”{{Cite web |title=My Father's Diet |url= https://www.andotherstories.org/my-fathers-diet/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=And Other Stories}}
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,{{Cite web |last=Kastner |first=Julia |date=2021-09-28 |title=When We Cease to Understand the World |url=https://shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=1060#m18496 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}} which was supported by an award from English PEN, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize,{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-04-23 |title=Awards: Stella Winner; International Booker Shortlist |url=https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3971#m52213 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}{{Cite web |last=Nawotka |first=Ed |date=2021-04-23 |title=International Booker Prize Shortlist Announced |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/86166-international-booker-prize-shortlist-announced.html |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=Publishers Weekly}} and the National Book Award for Translated Literature,{{Cite web |date=2021-10-06 |title=National Book Award Finalists Announced |url=https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4086#m54016 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Shelf Awareness}}{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Sophia |date=2021-10-05 |title=2021 National Book Award Finalists Announced |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/87536-2021-nba-finalists-announced.html |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Publishers Weekly |language=en}} and also selected by Barack Obama for his annual Summer Reading List in 2021.{{Cite web |last=Janfaza |first=Rachel |date=2021-07-10 |title=Obama Summer Reading List 2021 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/10/politics/obama-summer-reading-list-2021/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=CNN}} 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.{{Cite web |title=National Translation Awards |url= https://literarytranslators.org/awards/?award-item=open-heart-id-24471 |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=American Literary Translators Association}} He is the English-language translator of Swiss author Hermann Burger.{{Cn|date=March 2025}}
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,{{Cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/by/adrian-nathan-west|access-date=2025-01-10 |website=The New York Times|date= 23 March 2022 |title=Adrian Nathan West - the New York Times }} The New York Review of Books,{{Cite web |url= https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/adrian-nathan-west/|access-date=2025-01-10 |website=The New York Review of Books|date= 23 March 2022 |title=Adrian Nathan West }} The Baffler,{{Cite web |url= https://thebaffler.com/authors/adrian-nathan-west|access-date=2025-01-10 |website=The Baffler|date= 23 March 2022 |title=Adrian Nathan West }} The Washington Examiner,{{Cite web |url= https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/author/adrian-nathan-west/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=The Washington Examiner|date= 23 March 2022 |title=Adrian-nathan-west - Washington Examiner }} The Times Literary Supplement,{{Cite web |url= https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/adrian-nathan-west
|access-date=2025-01-10 |website=The Times Literary Supplement|date= 23 March 2022 |title=Adrian Nathan West Archives }}'' 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.{{Cite web |title=My Father's Diet author Adrian Nathan West scoops an Arts and Letters Award in Literature |url= https://www.andotherstories.org/2022/03/23/my-fathers-diet-author-adrian-nathan-west-scoops-an-arts-and-letters-award-in-literature/ |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=And Other Stories|date= 23 March 2022 }}
Personal life
West lives between Spain and the United States with the cinema critic Beatriz Leal Riesco. He is a brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.{{Cn|date=March 2025}}
Bibliography
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- {{Cite book |last=Winkler |first=Josef |author-link=Josef Winkler (writer) |title=When the Time Comes |date=2013 |publisher=Contra Mundum Press |isbn=978-1-68137-566-3 |language=}}{{Cite web |date=2021-06-22 |title=When We Cease to Understand The World by Benjamin Labatut |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781681375663 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
- {{Cite book |last=Fritz |first=Marianne |author-link=Marianne Fritz |title=The Weight of Things |date=2015 |publisher=Dorothy |isbn=978-0-9897607-7-5 |language=}}{{Cite web |date=July 14, 2015 |title=The Weight of Things |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marianne-fritz/weight-of-things/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}
- {{Cite book |last=Winkler |first=Josef |author-link=Josef Winkler (writer) |title=Graveyard of Bitter Oranges |date=2015 |publisher=Contra Mundum Press |isbn= |language=}}
- {{Cite book |last=Gimferrer |first=Pere |author-link=Pere Gimferrer |title=Fortuny |date=2016 |publisher=David R. Godine |isbn= |language=}}
- {{Cite book |last=Benet |first=Juan |author-link=Juan Benet |title=The Construction of the Tower of Babel |date=2017 |publisher=Wakefield Press |isbn= |language=}}
- {{Cite book |last=Goetz |first=Rainald |author-link=Rainald Goetz |title=Insane |date=2017 |publisher=Fitzcarraldo Editions |isbn=978-1-913505-22-6 |language=}}{{Cite web |date=2018-06-11 |title=Insane by Rainald Goetz |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781910695319 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
- {{Cite book |last=Lange |first=Hartmut |title=Positive Nihilism: My Confrontation with Heidegger |date=2017 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn= |language=}}
- {{Cite book |last=Zepeda Patterson |first=Jorge |title=Milena, or the Most Beautiful Femur in the World |date=2017 |publisher=Restless Books |isbn=978-1-63206-125-6 |language=}}{{Cite web |date=2017-03-20 |title=Milena, or the Most Beautiful Femur in the World by Jorge Zepeda Patterson |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781632061256 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
- {{Cite book |last=Améry |first=Jean |author-link=Jean Améry |title=Charles Bovary, Country Doctor |date=2018 |publisher=New York Review Books |isbn=978-1-68137-250-1 |language=}}{{Cite web |date=2018-07-23 |title=Charles Bovary, Country Doctor by Jean Amaery |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781681372501 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
- {{Cite book |last=Lacan |first=Sibylle |title=A Father: Puzzle |date=2019 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-03931-4 |language=}}{{Cite web |date=March 9, 2019 |title=A Father |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sibylle-lacan/a-father/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}
- {{Cite book |last=Ferrari |first=K. |title=Like Flies From Afar |date=2020 |publisher=Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |isbn=978-0-374-23994-7 |language=}}{{Cite web |date=2020-01-06 |title=Like Flies from Afar by K Ferrari |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780374239947 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
- {{Cite book |last=Goetz |first=Rainald |author-link=Rainald Goetz |title=Rave |date=2020 |publisher=Fitzcarraldo |isbn= |language=}}
- {{Cite book |last=Labatut |first=Benjamín |author-link=Benjamín Labatut |title=When We Cease to Understand the World |date=2020 |publisher=Pushkin |isbn= |language=}}
- {{Cite book |last=Llosa |first=Mario Vargas |author-link=Mario Vargas Llosa |title=Harsh Times |date=2021 |publisher=Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |isbn=978-0-374-60123-2 |language=}}{{Cite web |date=2021-08-18 |title=Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780374601232 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
- {{Cite book |last=Neruda |first=Pablo |author-link=Pablo Neruda |title=The Complete Memoirs: Expanded Edition |date=2021 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |others=Translated with Hardie St. Martin |isbn=978-0-374-53812-5 |edition= |location= |language=}}{{Cite web |date=April 7, 2021 |title=The Complete Memoirs |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/pablo-neruda/the-complete-memoirs/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}
- {{Cite book |last=Pàmies |first=Sergi |author-link=Sergi Pàmies |title=The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat |date=2021 |publisher=Other Press |isbn= |language=}}
- {{Cite book |last=Burger |first=Hermann |author-link=Hermann Burger |title=Brenner |date=2022 |publisher=Archipelago Books |isbn=978-1-953861-30-6 |language=}}{{Cite web |date=2022-05-09 |title=Brenner by Hermann Burger |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781953861306 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
- {{Cite book |last=Burger |first=Hermann |author-link=Hermann Burger |title=Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis |date=2022 |publisher=Wakefield Press |isbn= |language=}}
- {{Cite book |last=Llosa |first=Mario Vargas |author-link=Mario Vargas Llosa |title=Fonchito and the Moon |date=2022 |publisher=Kales Press |others=Illustrated by Marta Chicote Juiz |isbn=979-8-9859558-0-4 |language=}}{{Cite web |date=2022-09-07 |title=Fonchito and the Moon |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mario-vargas-llosa/fonchito-and-the-moon/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}
- {{Cite book |last=Carpentier |first=Alejo |author-link=Alejo Carpentier |title=Explosion in the Cathedral |date=2023 |publisher=Penguin Classics |isbn= |language=}}
- {{Cite book |last=Carpentier |first=Alejo |author-link=Alejo Carpentier |title=The Lost Steps |date=2023 |publisher=Penguin Classics |isbn= |language=}}
- {{Cite book |last=Gurt |first=Carlota |author-link=Carlota Gurt |title=Alone |date=2023 |publisher=Europa Editions |isbn= |language=}}
- {{Cite book |last=Ron |first=Mercedes |author-link=Mercedes Ron |title=Your Fault |date=2023 |publisher=Bloom Books |isbn=978-1-728-29076-8 |language=}}{{Cite web |date=2023-11-17 |title=Your Fault |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mercedes-ron/your-fault/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}
- {{Cite book |last=de Palol |first=Miquel |author-link=Miquel de Palol |title=The Garden of Seven Twilights |date=2023 |publisher=Dalkey Archive Press |isbn=978-1-628974-51-5 |language=}}{{Cite web |date=2023-02-22 |title=The Garden of Seven Twilights |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/miquel-de-palol/garden-seven-twilights/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}
- {{Cite book |last=Burger |first=Hermann |author-link=Hermann Burger |title=Diabelli |date=2025 |publisher=Wakefield Press |isbn= |language=}}
- {{Cite book |last=Hernández |first=Miguel Ángel |author-link=Miguel Ángel Hernández |title=Anoxia |date=2025 |publisher=Other Press |isbn=978-1-63542-458-4 |language=}}{{Cite web |date=2024-11-11 |title=Anoxia by Miguel Ángel Hernández |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781635424584 |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
- {{Cite book |last=Mattioli |first=Massimo |author-link=Massimo Mattioli |title=Joe Galaxy |date=2025 |publisher=Fantagraphics |others=Translated with Jamie Richards |isbn= |language=}}
References
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External links
- [https://anathanwest.com Official website]
- [https://advicetowriters.com/interviews/adrian-nathan-west "Advice to Writers"]
- [https://thebookerprizes.com/benjamin-labatut-adrian-nathan-west-interview-when-we-cease-to-understand-the-world "Benjamín Labatut and Adrian Nathan West on When We Cease to Understand the World"]
- [https://therumpus.net/2022/02/07/revelation-is-absurd-a-conversation-with-adrian-nathan-west/ "Revelation is Absurd: A Conversation with Adrian Nathan West"]
- [https://thebaffler.com/latest/body-and-soul-russek/ "Body and Soul: An Interview with Adrian Nathan West"]
- [https://www.berfrois.com/2016/06/sorrows-adversities-berfrois-interviews-adrian-nathan-west/ "The Market for Abuse and Humiliation: A Conversation with Adrian Nathan West"]
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