Ottessa Moshfegh
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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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One challenge for me is in remembering what the process of writing the novel was like.
On one difficulty in discussing the writing process in “Interviews: Ottessa Moshfegh in BookPage (2019 Oct 7)
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.
On the illusion of orderly writing in “Interviews: Ottessa Moshfegh in BookPage (2019 Oct 7)
In order to write well, I need to have the ability to be honest with myself without it causing pain.
On what she requires in order to write in “Miscellaneous Files: Ottessa Moshfegh” in Guernica Magazine (2018 Nov 6)
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About this person
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.
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