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Ottessa Moshfegh

1981 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Ottessa Moshfegh is the 7,303rd most popular writer (down from 7,152nd in 2024), the 17,964th most popular biography from United States (down from 17,157th in 2019) and the 1,186th most popular American Writer.

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Among people born in 1981, Ottessa Moshfegh ranks 1,028Before her are Marco Tulio, Yao Beina, Élson, Karolina Wydra, Simone Del Nero, and Teun Mulder. After her are Danilo Gomes, Diego Colotto, Guillermo Martínez, Zurab Khizanishvili, Nick Valensi, and Emanuele Sella.

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ottessa Moshfegh ranks 1,189Before her are Brian Azzarello (1962), Edward Kitsis (1971), Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965), Adam Johnson (1967), Jon Spaihts (1970), Meg LeFauve (1969), Carl Zimmer (1966), Scott Lynch (1978), and Michael Schur (1975). After her are Maggie Stiefvater (1981), Andrew Sean Greer (1970), and Kass Morgan (1984).