Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Audition. A finalist for the Booker Prize and longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, it was one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2025. NPR calls it “a tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller.” She is also the author of Intimacies, one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021 and one of Obama’s favorite books of 2021. It was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. The Washington Post lauds “the novel’s reverberations, which expose something incomprehensible about the moral dimensions of modern life.” In France, it won the Prix Litteraire Lucien Barriere, was a finalist for the Grand Prix de l’Heroine, and was longlisted for the Prix Fragonard. 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. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, a Cullman Center Fellowship, as well as fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena, and Jan Michalski foundations. Katie has written for publications including The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Guardian, BOMB, Triple Canopy, and Frieze. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
Audition
Intimacies
A Separation
Gone to the Forest
