Katie Kitamura Bio | Wiki
Katie Kitamura is an American novelist, journalist, and art critic. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the London Consortium. Katie wrote Japanese for Travellers, A Journey, describing her travels across Japan and examining the dichotomies of its society and her own place in it as a Japanese-American.
Her 2017 novel A Separation will be adapted for a film starring Katherine Waterston. Katie’s novel Intimacies appeared in 2021. She became introduced to mixed martial arts in Japan by her brother. Katie’s first novel, The Longshot, published in 2009, is about the preparation undertaken by a fighter and his trainer ahead of a championship bout against a famous opponent.
Katie’s second novel, Gone to the Forest, published in 2013, is set in an unnamed colonial country and describes the life and suffering of a landowning family against a backdrop of civil strife and political change.
Katie Kitamura Age
Katie was born in 1979, in California, United States. She is 43 years old.
Katie Kitamura Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in (Approx. 1.65 m).
Katie Kitamura Family
She was born in Sacramento, California to her parents. Katie grew up in Davis, where her father Ryuichi was a professor at the university’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She was raised in a family of Japanese origin. Her brother introduced her to mixed martial arts in Japan.
Katie Kitamura Husband | Hari Kunzru
Katie is married to her husband Hari Kunzru. Together the couple shares two children. Hari is an English novelist and journalist. He is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men, White Tears, and Red Pill. His work has been translated into twenty languages.
Katie Kitamura Education
She graduated from Princeton University in New Jersey in 1999. Katie earned a Ph.D. in American literature from the London Consortium. Her thesis was titled The Aesthetics of Vulgarity and the Modern American Novel in 2005. Earlier in her life, she trained as a ballerina.
Katie Kitamura Separation
Katie’s 2017 novel A Separation was adapted for a film starring Katherine Waterston. A separation is a psychological meditation on the ties that bind a marriage. Katie writes for The Guardian, The New York Times, and Wired. She has written articles on mixed martial arts, film criticism and analysis, and art.
Katie Kitamura Intimacies
Her novel Intimacies appeared in 2021. Cunningly masqueraded as a murder mystery, Intimacies is a brilliant examination of language conveyed with the kind of pacing, tautness, and menace usually associated with a thriller. The pervasive sense of threat that envelops the book is further heightened by the piercing clarity of the prose.
In 2021, Katie’s Intimacies was longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction. Her The Longshot was shortlisted for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award in 2010. In 2013, her Gone to the Forest was also shortlisted for the Young Lions Fiction Award.
Katie Kitamura Books
She is the author of five books including:
Japanese for Travellers: A Journey 2006
The Longshot: A Novel 2009
Gone to the Forest 2013
A Separation 2017
Intimacies 2021.
Katie Kitamura Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career. therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Katie’s estimated net worth is $1.1 million.
Who Is Katie Kitamura
Katie is an American novelist, journalist, and art critic. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the London Consortium. Katie wrote Japanese for Travellers, A Journey, describing her travels across Japan and examining the dichotomies of its society and her own place in it as a Japanese-American.