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
- 2013–2015 Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University[7]
- 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[8]
- 2014 Believer Book Award winner for McGlue[9]
- 2016 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for Eileen[10]
- 2016 Man Booker Prize (shortlist) for Eileen
Bibliography
Novels
- McGlue (2014)
- Eileen (2015)
Short stories
- "Medicine", Vice, December 1, 2007
- "Disgust", The Paris Review, No. 202, Fall 2012
- "Bettering Myself", The Paris Review, No. 204 Spring 2013
- "Malibu", Vice, July 3, 2013
- "The Weirdos", The Paris Review, No. 206, Fall 2013
- "A Dark and Winding Road", The Paris Review, No. 207, Winter 2013
- "No Place for Good People", The Paris Review, No. 209, Summer 2014
- "Slumming", The Paris Review, No. 211, Winter 2014
- "Nothing Ever Happens Here", Granta, Issue 131, Spring 2015
- "The Surrogate", Vice, June 5, 2015
- "Dancing in the Moonlight", The Paris Review, No. 214 Fall 2015
- "The Beach Boy", The New Yorker, January 4, 2016
- "The Locked Room", The Baffler, Spring 2016
- "An Honest Woman", The New Yorker, October 24, 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
- ↑ Novak, Joanna (November 3, 2014). "Ottessa Moshfegh Is the Next Big Thing, and Here Are 7 Reasons Why". Bustle. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
- ↑ "Character Finds A Path Out of Her Personal Prison In 'Eileen'". NPR. August 15, 2015. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- 1 2 Stein, Lorin. "Ottessa Moshfegh". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
- ↑ "Eileen: A Novel". Penguin Press.
- ↑ King, Lily (August 14, 2015). "'Eileen,' by Ottessa Moshfegh". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
- ↑ "Two from Moshfegh for Cape". thebookseller.com.
- ↑ "Stegner Fellowship – Complete List of Stegner Fellows " Stanford Creative Writing Program". stanford.edu.
- ↑ "The Fence Modern Prize in Prose". Past winners. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
- ↑ "The Believer Book Award". The Believer. November 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
- ↑ Mark Shanahan (March 16, 2016). "Newton's Ottessa Moshfegh wins 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award". Boston Globe. Retrieved June 22, 2016.
- ↑ Treisman, Deborah (December 28, 2015). "This Week in Fiction: Ottessa Moshfegh on the Repressed Western Consciousness". The New Yorker.
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