Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh (born May 20, 1981 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American writer .
Life
Ottessa Moshfegh is the daughter of an Iranian violinist and a Croatian violist who met at a Belgian music school. After the family originally wanted to live in Iran, they immigrated to the USA, where Moshfegh was born in 1981. She grew up in Newtons . From 1998 to 2002 she successfully completed a bachelor's degree in English and Creative Writing at Barnard College . A master's degree in creative writing followed from 2009 to 2011 at Brown University .
Since then, Moshfegh has published numerous short stories that have appeared in The Paris Review , Vice and The New Yorker , among others . With McGlue , also translated into German in 2016, she made her debut as a novelist in 2014. The story takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1851 and is about the alcoholic sailor McGlue, who is accused of killing his best friend in Zanzibar . However, due to a skull injury and excessive alcohol consumption, he cannot remember anything. For her debut, Moshfegh received the Believer Book Award and the Fence Modern Prize in Prose .
Her second novel, Eileen , was published in 2015 and received critical acclaim. The title character is an emotionally disturbed woman who works as a secretary in a juvenile detention center and at the same time has to take care of her alcoholic father. Dreaming of escaping into town, Eileen spends her free time shoplifting and stalking a handsome prison guard . When the charismatic superior Rebecca begins her service in prison, a dangerous friendship develops with her, which leads to a crime. The work received the Hemingway Foundation PEN Award in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize that same year . The filming rights to Eileen were acquired from the film producer Scott Rudin .
Ottessa Moshfegh lives in Los Angeles .
Works
- Novels
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McGlue. 2014.
- German by Anke Caroline Burger : McGlue. Novel. Liebeskind , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-95438-067-1 .
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Eileen. 2015.
- German by Anke Caroline Burger: Eileen. Novel. Liebeskind, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95438-081-7 .
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My Year of Rest and Relexation. 2018.
- German by Anke Caroline Burger: My year of rest and relaxation. Novel. Liebeskind, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-95438-092-3 .
- Volumes of stories
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Homesick For Another World. 2017.
- German by Anke Caroline Burger: Homesick for another world. Liebeskind, Munich 2020. ISBN 978-3-95438-115-9
Awards
- 2015: National Book Critics Circle Award nomination for Eileen
- 2016: Man Booker Prize nomination for Eileen
- 2016: Hemingway Foundation PEN Award for Eileen
Web links
- Ottessa Moshfegh in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Ottessa Moshfegh at perlentaucher.de
- Posts by and about Ottessa Moshfegh on theguardian.com
- “The other, ugly America” (Ottessa Moshfegh: “Homesick for another world”) , Deutschlandfunk “Büchermarkt” from January 29, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kate Kellaway: Ottessa Moshfegh: I didn't set out to write Eileen as a noir novel. from: theguardian.com , February 28, 2016, accessed March 27, 2016.
- ^ Peter Carty, New Books: Eileen, by Ottessa Moshfegh - a disturbing noir thriller destined for classic status. from: ibtimes.co.uk , March 10, 2016, accessed March 27, 2016.
- ↑ "Sehnsuchten secondhand" , sueddeutsche.de January 23, 2020, accessed January 29, 2020
- ↑ Ottessa Moshfegh: Eileen - "The everyday cruelty" , deutschlandfunkkultur.de September 15, 2017, accessed January 29, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moshfegh, Ottessa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moshfegh, Ottessa Charlotte (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |