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The MOP Talks: Ottessa Moshfegh
SERIES OF TALKS WITH FEMALE WRITERS: OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
The MOP Foundation is launching a new initiative as part of The MOP Talks, its series of events open to the public featuring leading figures from contemporary culture and the creative arts. This series of conversations with female writers will bring Tatiana Ţîbuleac, Ottessa Moshfegh and Lionel Shriver to A Coruña, with cultural journalist Andrea Aguilar acting as moderator.
Ottessa Moshfegh, a writer renowned worldwide for works such as Eileen, My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Lapvona, will be the guest of honour at the second event in the series on Friday 10 April at 7.00 pm.
Tickets available from 30 March at 11.00 am.
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England, US. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona, her next three novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.
ANDREA AGUILAR
Andrea Aguilar (Madrid, 1978), a cultural journalist with a degree in History and Politics from the University of Kent, was a fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2007 and lived in New York until 2014. She is an editor at the newspaper El País, where she has been writing for over two decades, mainly on literary and cultural topics. Her work, with a particular focus on interviews with authors, has been published in magazines such as The Paris Review, Letras Libres and The Reading Room Journal. She co-edited the book Upstairs at The Strand. Writers in Conversation at the Legendary Bookstore (WW Norton, 2016).