Katie Kitamura, author portrait
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Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura is the author of Audition, which has been a finalist for the 2025 Booker Prize, the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the Gotham Book Prize, and has been longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her five previous novels include A Separation and Intimacies, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, a Lannan fellowship, and many other honors, and her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
Audition
Intimacies
A Separation

Books

Audition
Intimacies
A Separation

Books for LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

In June we celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual + (LGBTQIA+) Pride Month, which honors the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. Pride Month is a time to both celebrate the accomplishments of those in the LGBTQ+ community and recognize the ongoing struggles faced by many across the world who wish to live

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Our Pulitzer Prize Winner: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US by Brian Goldstone, and finalists

On Monday, May 4, the Pulitzer Prizes, the most prestigious awards in American letters, were announced by Administrator Marjorie Miller via livestream. We’re thrilled to share that Penguin Random House author Brian Goldstone‘s There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Crown; Random House Audio) was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Each year, the

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