Katie Kitamura
Katie M. Kitamura (born 1979 in California ) is an American writer.
Life
Katie Kitamura is the child of Japanese immigrants, she initially wanted to become a ballerina . She graduated from Princeton University in 1999 and received her PhD from the London Consortium in 2005 with her dissertation The Aesthetics of Vulgarity and the Modern American Novel .
She writes feature articles for the English-language quality press. Kitamura published five novels by 2017. Her novel Separation is to be filmed with Katherine Waterston .
Kitamura is married to the writer Hari Kunzru .
Works (selection)
- with Takahiro Kitamura: Bushido-legacies of japanese tattoo . Schiffer: Atglen, 2002 ISBN 0-7643-1201-4 .
- The Longshot . Novel. New York: Free Press, 2009.
- Gone to the Forest . London: Clerkenwell, 2013.
- Japanese for Travelers - A Journey . London: Hamish Hamilton, 2007.
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A separation . New York: Riverhead Books, 2017.
- Separation: Roman . Translation of Kathrin Razum. Munich: Carl Hanser, 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25445-9 .
literature
- Sarah Hall : Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura - review , in: The Guardian , February 6, 2013
Web links
- Literature by and about Katie Kitamura in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Katie Kitamura in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Katie Kitamura in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Katie Kitamura , at Simon & Schuster
- Katie Kitamura , at Hanser's
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kitamura, Katie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kitamura, Katie M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | California |