Author Ottessa Moshfegh at the 2015 Texas Book Festival. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44461234

Ottessa Moshfegh

Author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Includes the names: Otessa Moshfegh, Ottess Moshfegh, Ottessa Moshfegh

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Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in The Paris Review and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford. Her title My Year of Rest and Relaxation made the bestseller list in 2018. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from My Year of Rest and Relaxation… (more)

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Works by Ottessa Moshfegh

My Year of Rest and Relaxation 2,600 copies, 121 reviews

Eileen 1,793 copies, 98 reviews

Homesick for Another World 928 copies, 43 reviews

Death in Her Hands 757 copies, 40 reviews

Lapvona 550 copies, 21 reviews

McGlue 318 copies, 15 reviews

Bettering Myself 9 copies

My New Novel 5 copies

An Honest Woman 4 copies

The Weirdos {story} 3 copies

The Beach Boy {story} 2 copies

Mr Wu 2 copies

Slumming {story} 2 copies

No Place for Good People {story} 1 copy

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Dark Tales (Foreword, some editions) 466 copies, 12 reviews

The Paris Review: Women Writers at Work (Preface) 138 copies

Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists (Contributor) 68 copies, 2 reviews

Granta 144: Generic Love Story (Contributor) 48 copies, 1 review

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1981-05-20

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Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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New York, New York, USA

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Shortlist Booker Prize 2016

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