Katie Kitamura is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Audition, a Booker Prize finalist and one of Barack Obama’s 2025 Summer Reads. Her previous novel, Intimacies, was named one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, also selected by Obama as a favorite book of that year. It was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Internationally, it won France’s Prix Littéraire Lucien Barrière and was longlisted or shortlisted for multiple other French literary prizes.
Her novel A Separation was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book, while her earlier novels, Gone to the Forest and The Longshot, were finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Kitamura’s work has been translated into 27 languages and is currently being adapted for film and television.
She has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, a Cullman Center Fellowship, and fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena, and Jan Michalski foundations. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Guardian, BOMB, Triple Canopy, and Frieze. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
