Chloe Aridjis - Biography

Chloe Aridjis is a London-based Mexican writer. She is the oldest daughter of writer and diplomat Homero Aridjis and Betty Ferber de Aridjis, an environmental activist & translator. She is the sister of film maker Eva Aridjis, for whom she has worked as stills photographer.

Biography

Born in New York, U.S., grew up in Mexico City and Holland, where her father was serving as Mexico's ambassador, she studied Comparative Literature at Harvard and then received a PhD from the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Malcolm Bowie. Her book of essays on Magic and Poetry in Nineteenth-century France was released in 2005. She has published in journals and newspapers in England, Mexico and after five years in Berlin currently resides in London, where she is working on a novel and a collection of short stories. Her first novel "Book of Clouds" was published in the USA by Grove Press in winter 2009. It has also been published in Holland, and was published by Chatto and Windus in the UK in July 2009, and by Mercure de France in September 2009. It will come out in Mexico, Spain, Romania and Croatia in 2011 and as a graphic novel in French in early 2012. Reviewing Book of Clouds for The Independent, Daniel Hahn described it as an "exceptional debut novel". In November 2009, Book of Clouds won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in France.

Bibliography

• 'Book of Clouds' Grove Press, 2009
• 'Book of Clouds' Chatto and Windus, 2009
• 'Wolken boven Berlijn' LJ Veen, 2009
• 'Le livre des nuages' Mercure de France, 2009
• 'Magic and the Literary Fantastique in Nineteenth-Century France', University of Oxford, 2002
• 'Topografía de lo insólito', Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 2005

External links

• Interview with Chloe Aridjis about 'Book of Clouds' in Exberliner Magazine
• Literature Festival Bio
• Los Angeles Times review of "Book of Clouds"
• New York Times review of 'Book of Clouds'
• First chapter of 'Book of Clouds' New York Times
• 'Portrait of my Father' Granta
• Chloe Aridjis reads 'Ghost Stations'
• interview with chloe aridjis by_zett aguado at night train magazine