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Occupation
  
Novelist, writer

Name
  
Ottessa Moshfegh

Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Author

Genre
  
Fiction

Books
  
Eileen

Notable works
  
Eileen


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Alma mater
  
Barnard College (BA) Brown University (MFA)

Education
  
Brown University, Barnard College

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

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Career

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Moshfegh is a frequent contributor to the Paris Review; she has published six stories in the journal since 2012. Fence Books published her novella, McGlue, in 2014. Her novel Eileen was published by Penguin Press in August 2015, and received positive reviews. The book was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. Homesick for Another World, a collection of short stories, was published in January 2017.

Awards and honors

  • 2013–15 Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University
  • 2013 Plimpton Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review for her story "Bettering Myself"
  • 2014 Fence Modern Prize in Prose (judged by Rivka Galchen), inaugural winner for McGlue
  • 2014 Believer Book Award winner for McGlue
  • 2016 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for Eileen
  • 2016 Man Booker Prize (shortlist) for Eileen
  • References

    Ottessa Moshfegh Wikipedia