Katie Kitamura is an American novelist, journalist and art critic, born in Sacramento, California
Kitamura graduated from Princeton University in New Jersey and earned a PhD in American literature from the London Consortium.
She is the author of five novels. Intimacies was selected as one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. It was also one of Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2021.
Her work has been translated into over 20 languages and is being adapted for film and television. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, as well as fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena and Jan Michalski foundations. Kitamura has written for publications including the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Granta, frieze, and others, and teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
Her fifth novel, Audition, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025.
Aside from the extraordinarily honed quality of its sentences, the remarkable thing about Audition is the way it persists in the mind after reading, like a knot that feels tantalisingly close to coming free
— The Booker Prize 2025 judges on Audition
