Adrian Nathan West

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,^[2] which was supported by an award from English PEN, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize,^[3][4] and the National Book Award for Translated Literature,^[5][6] and also selected by Barack Obama for his annual Summer Reading List in 2021.^[7] 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.^[8] He is the English-language translator of Swiss author Hermann Burger.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[9]

West lives between Spain and the United States with the cinema critic Beatriz Leal Riesco. He is a brown belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu.^{[citation needed]}

As author

• The Aesthetics of Degradation. Repeater Books. 2016. ISBN 978-1-913505-22-6.
• My Father's Diet. And Other Stories. 2022. ISBN 978-1-913505-22-6.^[1]

As translator

• Winkler, Josef (2013). When the Time Comes. Contra Mundum Press. ISBN 978-1-68137-566-3.^[10]
• Fritz, Marianne (2015). The Weight of Things. Dorothy. ISBN 978-0-9897607-7-5.^[11]
• Winkler, Josef (2015). Graveyard of Bitter Oranges. Contra Mundum Press.
• Gimferrer, Pere (2016). Fortuny. David R. Godine.
• Benet, Juan (2017). The Construction of the Tower of Babel. Wakefield Press.
• Goetz, Rainald (2017). Insane. Fitzcarraldo Editions. ISBN 978-1-913505-22-6.^[12]
• Lange, Hartmut (2017). Positive Nihilism: My Confrontation with Heidegger. MIT Press.
• Zepeda Patterson, Jorge (2017). Milena, or the Most Beautiful Femur in the World. Restless Books. ISBN 978-1-63206-125-6.^[13]
• Améry, Jean (2018). Charles Bovary, Country Doctor. New York Review Books. ISBN 978-1-68137-250-1.^[14]
• Lacan, Sibylle (2019). A Father: Puzzle. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-03931-4.^[15]
• Ferrari, K. (2020). Like Flies From Afar. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-23994-7.^[16]
• Goetz, Rainald (2020). Rave. Fitzcarraldo.
• Labatut, Benjamín (2020). When We Cease to Understand the World. Pushkin.
• Vargas Llosa, Mario (2021). Harsh Times. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-60123-2.^[17]
• Neruda, Pablo (2021). The Complete Memoirs: Expanded Edition. Translated with Hardie St. Martin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-53812-5.^[18]
• Pàmies, Sergi (2021). The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat. Other Press.
• Burger, Hermann (2022). Brenner. Archipelago Books. ISBN 978-1-953861-30-6.^[19]
• Burger, Hermann (2022). Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis. Wakefield Press.
• Vargas Llosa, Mario (2022). Fonchito and the Moon. Illustrated by Marta Chicote Juiz. Kales Press. ISBN 979-8-9859558-0-4.^[20]
• Carpentier, Alejo (2023). Explosion in the Cathedral. Penguin Classics.
• Carpentier, Alejo (2023). The Lost Steps. Penguin Classics.
• Gurt, Carlota (2023). Alone. Europa Editions.
• Ron, Mercedes (2023). Your Fault. Bloom Books. ISBN 978-1-728-29076-8.^[21]
• de Palol, Miquel (2023). The Garden of Seven Twilights. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 978-1-628974-51-5.^[22]
• Burger, Hermann (2025). Diabelli. Wakefield Press.
• Hernández, Miguel Ángel (2025). Anoxia. Other Press. ISBN 978-1-63542-458-4.^[23]
• Mattioli, Massimo (2025). Joe Galaxy. Translated with Jamie Richards. Fantagraphics.
• Vargas Llosa, Mario (2023, translated/1st American Edition 2026). I Give You My Silence ISBN 978-0-374-61625-0