Hermann Winkler

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 B…