Chloe Aridjis
Chloe Aridjis (born 1971 in New York City ) is a Mexican-American writer.
Life
Chloe Aridjis is a daughter of the Mexican diplomat and writer Homero Aridjis and the American Betty F. de Aridjis. A younger sister is the filmmaker Eva Aridjis , for whom she temporarily worked as a set photographer. Aridjis grew up in Mexico and then in the Netherlands, where her father was used as an ambassador. She studied comparative literature at Harvard University and received a master's degree from Oxford University , where she did her doctorate with Malcolm Bowie with a dissertation on poetry and magic shows in 19th century France. She then stayed in Berlin for five years and then moved to London.
Her first novel Book of Clouds , published in 2009, has been translated into several languages and won the Prix du premier roman étranger . In 2012 the Belgian illustrator Fabienne Loodts transposed the novel into a graphic novel . Her second novel Asunder was published in 2013 . In 2016 she translated her father's book The Child Poet into English.
She writes for magazines such as Granta Books , frieze and the radio series Berlin Stories designed by Anna Winger .
In 2014 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship . She was co-curator of the Leonora Carrington exhibition at Tate Liverpool in 2015 . She played the lead role in the 2017 film Female Human Animal .
Works (selection)
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Magic and the Literary Fantastique in Nineteenth-Century France . University of Oxford, 2002
- La magia y lo fantástico literario en la Francia del siglo XIX . México DF: FCE - Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2015
- Topografía de lo insólito . México, DF: FCE - Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004
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Book of Clouds . Grove / Atlantic, 2009 ISBN 978-1-55584-919-1
- Book of clouds . Translation Klaus Bonn. Edition Nautilus, 2017 ISBN 9783960540311
- Asunder . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013 ISBN 978-0-544-00351-4
- Sea monsters. Novel . New York: Catapult, 2019
- The Other Americans . Pantheon, 2019
Web links
- Literature by and about Chloe Aridjis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Chloe Aridjis in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Chloe Aridjis at perlentaucher.de
- Chloe Aridjis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chloe Aridjis , at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , 2014, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aridjis, Chloe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican-American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |