KATIE KITAMURA grew up in both Japan and California. A New York-based novelist, journalist and art critic, she is the author of four novels, translated into eighteen languages. She teaches creative writing at New York University. Her first two novels, The Longshot (Free Press, 2009) and Gone to the Forest (Free Press, 2013), were finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Katie Kitamura’s novel Intimacies (Penguin, 2021 / Stock, 2023) is an electrifying story about an interpreter caught between many truths. Her novel was shortlisted for the National Book Award. A Separation was her first title translated into French (Les pleureuses, Stock, 2017). Her latest novel, Audition (Riverhead, 2025 / Stock, 2026), finalist for the 2025 Booker Prize, National Book Critics and Pulitzer Prize, is an incisive tour de force of controlled menace. Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She is an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He is attractive and young enough to be her son. Katie Kitamura gets behind the masks of common vision and produces fiction of visionary impact. Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams.
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