Ottessa Moshfegh

American author and novelist · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1981 · age 45

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.

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2019“One challenge for me is in remembering what the process of writing the novel was like.”In their wordsOn one difficulty in discussing the writing process in “Interviews: Ottessa Moshfegh in BookPage (2019 Oct 7)Read the whole statement

“What in effect looks like clear and directed writing took much chaos and anxiety. I felt like I was losing my mind toward the end.”In their wordsOn the illusion of orderly writing in “Interviews: Ottessa Moshfegh in BookPage (2019 Oct 7)Read the whole statement

2018“In order to write well, I need to have the ability to be honest with myself without it causing pain.”In their wordsOn what she requires in order to write in “Miscellaneous Files: Ottessa Moshfegh” in Guernica Magazine (2018 Nov 6)Read the whole statement