Christian Kracht and Katie Kitamura: The Art of Writing
Christian Kracht and Katie Kitamura discuss the art of writing.
Their writing unites stylistic elegance with analytical precision. Where one consistently targets the surface, the other tears apart what we take to be just that: What happens when two of the most innovative voices in contemporary literature meet? Well acquainted with each other’s work, Katie Kitamura and Christian Kracht speak together about the art of writing, about colonialism and fascism – themes that in both writers’ work frequently lurk, subtly, at and beneath the surface.
With Katie Kitamura, Christian Kracht
Moderated by Alexander Wells
In English with simultaneous interpretation to German
Tickets available at tickets.kbb.eu
In cooperation with International Literature Festival Berlin
Meet the speaker
Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Audition. A finalist for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Gotham Book Prize, it was one of President Obama’s Favorite Books of 2025. It was also longlisted for the Women’s Prize and the Carol Shields Prize. Her…
