'Moshfegh is easily the most interesting contemporary American writer on the subject of being alive when being alive feels terrible. Praise for MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION (2018): 'A dynamic and wonderfully mercurial writer, Ottessa Moshfegh has defied ideas of genre, appropriate subject matter and character “likability” to create sui generis award-winning work.' Guardian Her new novel, LAPVONA, will be published by Cape in June 2022. MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION was published by Jonathan Cape in July 2018, followed by DEATH IN HER HANDS in 2020. A collection of her short stories, HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD, was published by Jonathan Cape in January 2017, followed by MCGLUE, published in the UK for the first time, in May 2017. It was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Gordon Burn Prize 2016 and the Man Booker Prize 2016, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. Her debut novel, EILEEN, was published by Jonathan Cape in March 2016. MCGLUE, a novella, was selected by Rivka Galchen as the winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose 2014. She is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in the Paris Review, and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston.
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