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Born | Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh May 20, 1981 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Barnard College (BA) Brown University (MFA) |
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Notable works | Eileen My Year of Rest and Relaxation |
Partner | Luke B. Goebel |
Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh (/oʊˈtɛsə ˈmɒʃfɛɡ/;[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] Moshfegh's subsequent novels include My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona.