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American author (born 1981)
Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh (;[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 .
Early life and education
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Moshfegh was born in Boston, Massachusetts , in 1981.[5] Her mother was born in Croatia and her father, who is Jewish,[6] was born in Iran .[7] Her parents were both musicians and taught at the New England Conservatory of Music . As a child, Moshfegh learned to play piano and clarinet.[4]
She attended the Commonwealth School in Boston[8] and received her BA in English from Barnard College in 2002.[9] She completed an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University in 2011.[9] During her MFA study at Brown, she taught undergraduates, including Antonia Angress , author of the 2022 novel Sirens & Muses .[10] Moshfegh was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University from 2013 to 2015.[11] [12]
Career
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After college, Moshfegh moved to China, where she taught English and worked in a punk bar.[4]
In her mid-twenties, Moshfegh moved to New York City. She worked for Overlook Press , and then as an assistant for Jean Stein . After contracting cat-scratch fever , she left the city and earned an MFA from Brown University .[4] During those years, she supported herself by selling vintage clothing which she has described as mostly "tea dresses."[13]
Works
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In 2014, Fence Books published Moshfegh's novella McGlue . McGlue was the first recipient of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose.[14]
In August 2015, Penguin Press published Moshfegh's novel Eileen . It received positive reviews.[15] [16] The book was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize .[17] In the book, Eileen, the protagonist and narrator, describes a series of events that occurred years ago, when she was young and living in a Massachusetts town that she calls "X-ville." At the beginning of the novel, she is working as a secretary at a local juvenile prison while living with and caring for her abusive father, a retired police officer with alcoholism and paranoia. As the story continues, the dramatic situation that causes her to leave her life in X-ville is revealed.
Homesick for Another World , a collection of short stories, was published in January 2017.[18]
On July 10, 2018, Penguin Press published Moshfegh's second novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation . The book describes a young art history graduate living in New York City over 15 months from mid-June 2000.[19] Recently graduated from college and ambivalently mourning the recent deaths of her parents, she quits her job as a gallerist[19] and undertakes to sleep for a year with the assistance of sleeping pills and other medications prescribed by a disreputable psychiatrist.
Also in 2018, Moshfegh wrote a piece for Granta in which she describes an experience she had with a much older male writer when she was 17 years old.[20]
Moshfegh is a frequent contributor to the Paris Review and has published six stories in the journal since 2012.[21]
In August 2020, Vintage published Moshfegh's third novel, Death in Her Hands .[22] Moshfegh has called the book "a loneliness story."[11]
In June 2022, Penguin Press published Moshfegh's fourth novel, Lapvona , which follows Marek, the abused son of the town shepherd, along with other characters from the fictional, medieval fiefdom of Lapvona.[23]
Moshfegh co-wrote the 2022 drama film Causeway with her husband, Luke Goebel, and Elizabeth Sanders.[24] It premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival .[25]
Moshfegh has cited the poet and novelist Charles Bukowski as an influence on her work. Like Moshfegh, Bukowski created characters who were considered socially deprived and isolated.[26]
Personal life
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Moshfegh is married to the writer Luke B. Goebel, whom she met during an interview.[27] They live in Pasadena, California .[28]
Awards and honors
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Bibliography
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Novels
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Short fiction
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Collections
Novellas
Stories[a]
"Medicine", Vice , December 1, 2007
"Disgust" (alternately titled "Mr Wu"), 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
"Love Stories", Vice , December 5, 2016
"Brom", Granta , Issue 139, 2017
"The Pornographers", Vice , March 26, 2017
"I Was a Public Schooler", The Paris Review , No. 233, Summer 2020
"The Imitations", Apartamento , No. 27, May 17, 2021
Essays
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Critical studies and reviews of Moshfegh's work
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Homesick for another world
Livingstone, Josephine (January–February 2017). "Ordinary monsters : Ottessa Moshfegh plots twisted fairy tales for an age of alienation". The New Republic . 248 (1–2): 59–60.
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Notes
^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
References
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^ "Ottessa Moshfegh" . 10 Things That Scare Me . WNYC Studios. December 4, 2018. Retrieved December 2, 2022 .
^ Novak, Joanna (November 3, 2014). "Ottessa Moshfegh Is the Next Big Thing, and Here Are 7 Reasons Why" . Bustle . Retrieved April 13, 2015 .
^ a b c d Levy, Ariel. "Ottessa Moshfegh's Otherworldly Fiction" . The New Yorker . Retrieved July 3, 2018 .
^ Moshfegh, Ottessa (February 28, 2016). "Ottessa Moshfegh: I didn't set out to write Eileen as a noir novel" . The Guardian (Interview). Interviewed by Kate Kellaway. Retrieved June 1, 2017 .
^ "Ottessa Moshfegh's Otherworldly Fiction" . The New Yorker. July 2018.
^ "Character Finds A Path Out of Her Personal Prison In 'Eileen' " . NPR. August 15, 2015. Retrieved August 15, 2015 .
^ Sullivan, James (January 24, 2017). "The moral to her stories is... not there" . The Boston Globe . Retrieved May 18, 2021 .
^ a b "Ottessa Moshfegh | Literary Arts Program" . www.brown.edu . Archived from the original on May 19, 2021. Retrieved May 19, 2021 .
^ "Antonia Angress, "Sirens & Muses," | Reading the Room" . YouTube . The Bar and the Bookcase. August 9, 2022. (See 34:04 of 39:22 in video.)
^ a b Christensen, Lauren (April 16, 2020). "Ottessa Moshfegh Is Only Human" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved May 18, 2021 .
^ a b "Former Stegner Fellows | Creative Writing Program" . stanford.edu . Retrieved October 18, 2023 .
^ Phillips, Kaitlin (July 19, 2018). "Ottessa Moshfegh Plays to Win" . The Cut . Retrieved April 29, 2022 .
^ "McGlue Otessa Moshfeg | Fence Books" . www.fenceportal.org . Retrieved May 19, 2021 .
^ "Eileen: A Novel" . Penguin Press .
^ King, Lily (August 14, 2015). " 'Eileen,' by Ottessa Moshfegh" . The New York Times . Retrieved August 14, 2015 .
^ Laity, Paul (September 16, 2016). "Ottessa Moshfegh interview: 'Eileen started out as a joke – also I'm broke, also I want to be famous' " . The Guardian .
^ Sarah Shaffi (September 19, 2014). "Two from Moshfegh for Cape" . The Bookseller .
^ a b "My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh – caustic and acute" . the Guardian . July 22, 2018. Retrieved May 18, 2021 .
^ "Jailbait" . Granta Magazine . August 9, 2018. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
^ a b Stein, Lorin (October 28, 2014). "Ottessa Moshfegh" . BOMB Magazine . Retrieved October 18, 2023 .
^ "Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh review – meandering murder mystery" . the Guardian . October 9, 2020. Retrieved May 18, 2021 .
^ "Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh" . Kirkus Reviews . March 30, 2022. Retrieved November 26, 2022 .
^ "Causeway" . Writers Guild of America East . Retrieved August 15, 2022 .
^ Brunner, Raven (October 7, 2022). " 'Causeway' on Apple TV+: Trailer, Cast, Premiere Date and More" . Decider . Retrieved April 12, 2024 .
^ "Ottessa Moshfegh | Biography, Books, Eileen, & Facts | Britannica" . www.britannica.com . March 23, 2024. Retrieved April 23, 2024 .
^ Phillips, Kaitlin (July 19, 2018). "Ottessa Moshfegh Plays to Win" . The Cut . Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
^ "You're Probably Wrong About Ottessa Moshfegh" .
^ "The Fence Modern Prize in Prose" . Past winners . Archived from the original on November 24, 2015. 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 .
^ Moshfegh, Ottessa; Wood, Issy (2021). My new novel . New York, NY: Picture Books. ISBN 978-1-951449-24-7 . OCLC 1306221572 .
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