Bio (short):
Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is the international bestseller Audition, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and Prix Femina. Her previous novel, Intimacies, was one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021. It won the Prix Littéraire Lucien Barrière, and was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her novels have been translated into 29 languages and are being adapted for film. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, the Berlin Prize and a Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
Bio (long):
Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is the international bestseller Audition, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and Prix Femina. It was also a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, Gotham Book Prize and Prix Littéraire Les Inrockuptibles; it was longlisted for the Women’s Prize, Carol Shields Prize, Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE and Prix Rive Gauche à Paris. It was also one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2025. Her previous novel, Intimacies, was one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. In France, it won the Prix Littéraire Lucien Barriere, was a finalist for the Grand Prix de l’Heroine, and longlisted for the Prix Fragonard. It was also one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2021. Her third novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. Her two previous novels, Gone To The Forest and The Longshot, were both finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award.
Her novels have been translated into 29 languages and are being adapted for film. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, the Berlin Prize and a Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.