# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ottessa-moshfegh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:53:28.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ottessa-moshfegh"
name: "Ottessa Moshfegh"
slug: "ottessa-moshfegh"
description: "Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh is an American author, novelist and screenwriter. 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."
tagline: "American author and novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ottessa_Moshfegh_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1981-05-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4695403562788652
  historical:           21.285512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm7727974"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump