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Ottessa Moshfegh

20 May, 1981 in Boston, MA

Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh (born May 20, 1981) is an American author and novelist. 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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