Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh is an American novelist and screenwriter, born in 1981. Her debut novel, Eileen, appeared in 2015 and won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her later novels include My Year of Rest and Relaxation, about a young woman in New York who tries to withdraw from life for a year, along with Death in Her Hands and Lapvona.