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Ottessa Moshfegh (Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh) was born on 20 May, 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American author (born 1981). Discover Ottessa Moshfegh's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 43 years old?
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Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh ( born May 20, 1981) is an American author and novelist.
Moshfegh was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1981.
Her mother was born in Croatia and her father, who is Jewish, was born in Iran.
Her parents were both musicians and taught at the New England Conservatory of Music.
As a child, Moshfegh learned to play piano and clarinet.
The book describes a young art history graduate living in New York City over 15 months from mid-June 2000.
Recently graduated from college and ambivalently mourning the recent deaths of her parents, she quits her job as a gallerist and undertakes to sleep for a year with the assistance of sleeping pills and other medications prescribed by a disreputable psychiatrist.
She attended the Commonwealth School in Boston and received her BA in English from Barnard College in 2002.
She completed an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University in 2011.
During her MFA study at Brown, she taught undergraduates, including Antonia Angress, author of the 2022 novel Sirens & Muses.
Moshfegh is a frequent contributor to the Paris Review and has published six stories in the journal since 2012.
Moshfegh was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University from 2013 to 2015.
After college, Moshfegh moved to China, where she taught English and worked in a punk bar.
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.
During those years, she supported herself by selling vintage clothing which she has described as mostly "tea dresses."
In 2014, Fence Books published Moshfegh's novella McGlue.
McGlue was the first recipient of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose.
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.
In August 2015, Penguin Press published Moshfegh's novel Eileen.
It received positive reviews.
The book was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.
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.
On July 10, 2018, Penguin Press published Moshfegh's second novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
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.
In August 2020, Vintage published Moshfegh's third novel, Death in Her Hands.
Moshfegh has called the book "a loneliness story."
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.
Moshfegh and her husband, Luke Goebel, were awarded a shared "written by" credit (with Elizabeth Sanders) for their work on the A24 film Causeway.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2022.
Moshfegh is married to the writer Luke B. Goebel, whom she met during an interview.
They live in Pasadena, California.