Ottessa Moshfegh
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| File:Ottessa Moshfegh 2015.jpg
Moshfegh at the 2015 Texas Book Festival.
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| 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]
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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] A forthcoming collection of short stories is set to be published in January, 2017.[6]
Awards and honors
- 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award for Eileen[7]
- 2013-2015 Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University[8]
- 2013 Plimpton Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review for her story "Bettering Myself"[3]
- 2014 Fence Modern Prize in Prose (judged by Rivka Galchen), inaugural winner for McGlue[9]
- 2014 Believer Book Award winner for McGlue[10]
Bibliography
Novels
- McGlue (2014)
- Eileen (2015)
Short stories
- "Disgust", The Paris Review, No. 202, Fall 2012
- "Bettering Myself", The Paris Review, No. 204 Spring 2013
- "The Weirdos", The Paris Review, No. 206, 2013
- "A Dark and Winding Road", The Paris Review, No. 207, Winter 2013
- "Slumming", The Paris Review, No. 211, Winter 2014
- "Nothing Ever Happens Here", Granta, Issue 131, Spring 2015
- "The Surrogate", Vice, June, 2015
- "Dancing in Moonlight", The Paris Review, No. 214 Fall 2015
- "The Beach Boy", The New Yorker, January 4, 2016
Essays
- "Anything to Make You Happy", Lucky Peach, May, 2015
- "How to Shit", The Masters Review, October, 2015
Collections
- Homesick for Another World, January 17, 2017[11]
References
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