The Center for Fiction Presents Katie Kitamura on Audition with Jennifer Egan

In Conversation

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  Katie Kitamura

  Katie Kitamura

  Katie Kitamura is the author of five novels. Her most recent, Intimacies, was named one of the “10 Best Books of 2021” by the New York Times and was also one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year; it was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her previous novel, A Separation, was a New York Times Notable Book. Kitamura’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and is being adapted for film and television. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature as well as fellowships from the Lannan, Jan Michalski and Santa Maddalena Foundations. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.

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  Jennifer Egan

  Jennifer Egan

  Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was recently named one of the best books of the decade by Time magazine and Entertainment Weekly. Her new novel, The Candy House, a companion to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2022 and one of President Obama’s favorite reads of the year. She recently completed a term as President of PEN America and is currently Artist-in-Residence in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Also a journalist, her year-long reporting on street homelessness and supportive housing in New York City was published in the New Yorker in September, 2023.

  
  

  Photo Credit: Pieter M. van Hattem