diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6ec281a49..8c26675bf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 ### Parsing
 
-Updated Clojure, Common Lisp and Zig parsers.
+Updated Clojure, Common Lisp and Zig parsers. Improved parsing of
+Kotlin.
 
 Text encoding detection is now stricter, fixing more cases where
 binary files were treated as text.
diff --git a/src/parse/tree_sitter_parser.rs b/src/parse/tree_sitter_parser.rs
index 8ad40d827..b25f56d38 100644
--- a/src/parse/tree_sitter_parser.rs
+++ b/src/parse/tree_sitter_parser.rs
@@ -648,9 +648,14 @@ pub(crate) fn from_language(language: guess::Language) -> TreeSitterConfig {
                 // structure of complex types within, but it beats
                 // ignoring nullable changes.
                 // https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/issues/411
-                atom_nodes: ["line_string_literal", "character_literal", "nullable_type"]
-                    .into_iter()
-                    .collect(),
+                atom_nodes: [
+                    "nullable_type",
+                    "string_literal",
+                    "line_string_literal",
+                    "character_literal",
+                ]
+                .into_iter()
+                .collect(),
                 delimiter_tokens: vec![("(", ")"), ("{", "}"), ("[", "]"), ("<", ">")]
                     .into_iter()
                     .collect(),