Katie Kitamura

Audition was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and was one of President Obama’s Favourite Books of 2025. It was also a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize and the Carol Shields Prize. It is being adapted for film by director Lulu Wang, with Lucy Liu and Charles Melton starring.  

Her novel Intimacies was one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021. It was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was one of President Obama’s Favourite Books of 2021. In France, it won the Prix Littéraire Lucien Barrière, was a finalist for the Grand Prix de l’Héroine, and was longlisted for the Prix Fragonard. A Separation (2017) was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and longlisted for the Prix Meilleur Roman Points; it was also a New York Times Notable Book. It is being adapted for film by director Jonas Carpignano. 

Kitamura’s two previous novels, Gone to the Forest (2013) and The Longshot (2009), were both finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Kitamura is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize. She was the 2025 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library, and has received fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena and Jan Michalski Foundations.  Her work has been translated into 29 languages. She has written for publications including the New York Times, the Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, and Frieze, and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.