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Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh (/ oʊ ˈ t ɛ s ə ˈ m ɒ ʃ f ɛ ɡ /; [1] [2] born May 20, 1981) is an American author and novelist. [3] Her debut novel, Eileen (2015), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. [4]
May 20, 1981 · Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction.
Ottessa Moshfegh (born May 20, 1981, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American writer who is known for novels and short stories that feature bitterly introspective, isolated protagonists, most often young women, living on the outskirts of society.
Apr 16, 2020 · Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human. The author-provocateur’s latest novel is “a loneliness story.”. Just when it was scheduled to come out, isolation became the new normal. “I needed to write ...
Jul 2, 2018 · There was an unearthly quality to the atmosphere inside the Frieze New York art fair, like the air in a plane—still but pressurized, with an unsettling hum—when the fiction writer Ottessa...
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction.
Jul 10, 2018 · My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be.
