Ottessa Moshfegh
Personal information
- Known for
- Writing
- Known credits
- 7
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- May 20, 1981
- Place of birth
- Boston, MA
Biography
Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh (born May 20, 1981) is an American author and novelist. 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. Moshfegh's subsequent novels include My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona.
