Katie Kitamura

Author

Katie Kitamura is an American novelist, journalist, and art critic whose spare, psychologically acute fiction has established her as one of the most admired literary voices of her generation. She graduated from Princeton University and earned a PhD in American literature from the London Consortium. She has written art criticism for... publications including Frieze and contributed to the New York Times. Kitamura's novels include The Longshot, Gone to the Forest, A Separation, Intimacies (selected as one of the New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2021 and longlisted for the National Book Award), and Audition, which was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize and was a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Audition is a structurally daring novel about identity and selfhood, following an actress and a younger man through a Manhattan lunch that spirals into something far more unsettling. Her fiction is characterised by its precision, its silences, and its ability to generate suspense from the smallest interpersonal dynamics. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers literary fiction of extraordinary refinement — novels where what remains unspoken is as powerful as what appears on the page. Read more Show less