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Adrian Nathan West Translator & Author

Adrian Nathan West grew up in the United States and lives in Spain. He has translated more than twenty books from Spanish, Catalan, and German, among them Rainald Goetz's Insane, Pere Gimferrer's Fortuny, and Marianne Fritz's The Weight of Things. His first book, The Aesthetics of Degradation, was published in English in 2016 and is forthcoming in German and Dutch. His essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, and many other journals in print and online.