Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh

Moshfegh at the 2015 Texas Book Festival.
Born Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation Novelist, writer
Nationality American
Alma mater Barnard College (BA)
Brown University (MFA)
Genre Fiction, essays
Notable works Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh is an American author and novelist.[1] Moshfegh was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother was born in Croatia and her father was born in Iran.[2]

Career

Moshfegh is a frequent contributor to the Paris Review; she has published six stories in the journal since 2012.[3] Fence Books published her novella, McGlue, in 2014. Her novel, Eileen, was published by Penguin Press in August 2015, and received positive reviews.[4][5] The book has been shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. A forthcoming collection of short stories is set to be published in January 2017.[6]

Awards and honors

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Essays

Collections

References

  1. Novak, Joanna (November 3, 2014). "Ottessa Moshfegh Is the Next Big Thing, and Here Are 7 Reasons Why". Bustle. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  2. "Character Finds A Path Out of Her Personal Prison In 'Eileen'". NPR. August 15, 2015. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Stein, Lorin. "Ottessa Moshfegh". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  4. "Eileen: A Novel". Penguin Press.
  5. King, Lily (August 14, 2015). "'Eileen,' by Ottessa Moshfegh". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  6. "Two from Moshfegh for Cape". thebookseller.com.
  7. "Stegner Fellowship – Complete List of Stegner Fellows " Stanford Creative Writing Program". stanford.edu.
  8. "The Fence Modern Prize in Prose". Past winners. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  9. "The Believer Book Award". The Believer. November 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  10. Mark Shanahan (March 16, 2016). "Newton's Ottessa Moshfegh wins 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award". Boston Globe. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
  11. Treisman, Deborah (December 28, 2015). "This Week in Fiction: Ottessa Moshfegh on the Repressed Western Consciousness". The New Yorker.


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