Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Audition. A finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, it was one of President Obama’s Favorite Books of 2025. It was also a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize and longlisted for the Women’s Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her previous novel, Intimacies, was 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 one of President Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Cullman Center Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, and the Prix Litteraire Lucien Barriere, Kitamura’s work has been translated into 27 languages and is being adapted for film. She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at New York University.
