Chloe Aridjis
Chloe Aridjis | |
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Magical realism | |
Notable works | Book of Clouds (2009) Asunder (2013) Sea Monsters (2019) Dialogue With a Somnambulist (2021, 2023) |
Notable awards | Prix du Premier Roman Étranger (2009) PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2020) Prado Museum Writing the Prado Residency (2023) |
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Chloe Aridjis (born 1971) is a Mexican and American novelist and writer. Her novel Book of Clouds (2009) was published in eight countries, and won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger. Her second novel, Asunder was published in 2013 to unanimous acclaim.[1] Her third novel, Sea Monsters (2019), was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2020.[2] She is the eldest daughter of Mexican poet and diplomat Homero Aridjis and American Betty F. de Aridjis, an environmental activist and translator. She is the sister of film maker Eva Aridjis. She has a doctorate in nineteenth-century French poetry and magic from the University of Oxford.[3]
Biography
Born in New York City, Chloe Aridjis grew up in Mexico City and the Netherlands, where her father served as Mexico's ambassador. Aridjis studied comparative literature at Harvard University and wrote a thesis on "Night and the Poetic Self" in Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Malcolm Bowie before completing a doctorate on "the interface between high and popular art in nineteenth-century France with a special focus on the relationship between poetry, magic shows and literature of the fantastic".[4][5] As a teenager she had a bilingual exposure to pop in Mexico City, listening to British bands while discovering their Mexican equivalents at a gay goth club.[6]
She met great
Her book of essays on Magic and the Literary Fantastique in Nineteenth-Century France was published in 2002. Her doctoral thesis was published in Spanish as Topografía de lo insólito: La magia y lo fantástico literario en la Francia del siglo XIX (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 2005).[4] She publishes in journals and newspapers in England, Mexico, among them essays for Granta on insomnia and the psychological fallout of space travel on Soviet cosmonauts.[9] Aridjis lived in Berlin for five years, and currently resides in London. She has been vegetarian since 1986.[4]
Her
Her second novel, Asunder, was published in May 2013 by Chatto and Windus in
Her third novel, Sea Monsters, was published in February 2019. The New Yorker referred to it as "a hypnotic narrative of disenchantment",[17] while The Atlantic called it "a strange symbolist novel that would make Mallarmé proud"[18] and wrote: "Like a magician, Aridjis is obsessed with elusiveness; like a symbolist, she far prefers imagination and metaphor to plain sight."[18] Sea Monsters won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2020.[19]
Aridjis was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014.[20] In 2020, she was awarded the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writers Award for her forthcoming novel entitled Reports from the Land of the Bats.[21]
She was co-curator of the Leonora Carrington exhibition at Tate Liverpool that opened in March 2015[22] and she occasionally writes for frieze[23] and other art journals. In 2018 she starred in Josh Appignanesi's arthouse film "Female Human Animal."[24]
In February 2016, her English translation of her father's book The Child Poet was published.[25]
Aridjis is a member of Writers Rebel, a group of writers that focuses on the climate emergency. She is particularly interested in issues involving species extinction, and animal welfare in general.[26][27]
Works
- Magic and the Literary Fantastique in Nineteenth-Century France. University of Oxford, 2002.
- Topografía de lo insólito. Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 2005.
- Book of Clouds. London: Chatto and Windus, 2009.
- Asunder. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2013. ISBN 978-0-544-00351-4.[28]
- Book of Clouds. Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. 2009. ISBN 978-1-55584-919-1.
- Sea Monsters. Chatto & Windus, 2019.
- Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & a Portrait Gallery. House Sparrow Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-913513-29-0.
References
- ^ "The Omnivore » Asunder by Chloe Aridjis".
- ^ "Announcing the Winner of the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: SEA MONSTERS by Chloe Aridjis | The PEN/Faulkner Foundation". 6 April 2020.
- ^ "News Room". Grove Atlantic. 23 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Night Train - Interview - Chloe Aridjis". Archived from the original on 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
- ^ "Interview: Chloe Aridjis | the Jewish Chronicle". Archived from the original on 2009-09-30. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
- ^ a b "The Documentary, Sleevenotes, Chloe Aridjis". BBC. 2020-12-14. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ Aridjis, Chloe (June 6, 2013). "Book of a lifetime: Le Spleen de Paris, By Charles Baudelaire". The Independent.
- ^ Aridjis, Chloe (20 June 2013). "Ideal Syllabus: Chloe Aridjis | Frieze". Frieze (156).
- ^ "Chloe Aridjis".
- Independent.co.uk. Archived from the originalon 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
- ^ Lesser, Wendy (March 12, 2009). "Berlin Story (Published 2009)". The New York Times.
- ^ "Human footprints as fleeting as the weather". Los Angeles Times. April 3, 2009.
- ^ "Sodis". Archived from the original on 2009-11-07. Retrieved 2009-11-30.
- ^ "AgentQuery :: Find the Agent Who Will Find You a Publisher". www.agentquery.com.
- ^ "About us". www.penguin.co.uk.
- ^ "Order Asunder, ISBN 0544003462 | HMH". www.hmhco.com.
- ^ Waldman, Katy. "Chloe Aridjis's "Sea Monsters" Is a Hypnotic Narrative of Disenchantment". The New Yorker.
- ^ a b Meyer, Lily (February 17, 2019). "The Strange Beach Novel That Would Make Mallarmé Proud". The Atlantic.
- ^ Mendoza, Enrique (April 9, 2020). "Chloe Aridjis gana Premio Pen/Faulkner de Ficción 2020". zetatijuana.com.
- ^ "Chloe Aridjis - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-06.
- ^ "The Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writers Award". hayfestival.com.
- ^ "Leonora Carrington transcended her stolid background to become an". The Independent. March 4, 2015.
- ^ Aridjis, Chloe (October 2017). "Tea and Creatures with Leonora Carrington | Frieze". Frieze (6).
- ^ "How 'Female Human Animal' Blends Documentary with Fiction". 27 September 2018.
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(help) - ^ "The Child Poet by Homero Aridjis". Archipelago Books.
- ^ "About". writersrebel.com.
- ^ "UK's Top Writers speak truth to power to highlight the Ecological and Climate Emergency". Extinction Rebellion UK. 2019-10-01. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
- ^ Alexandra Harris (31 May 2013). "Asunder by Chloe Aridjis – review". The Guardian.
She dares add one more straining element because she knows that her novel – like the paintings she most admires – will be more intensely alive the more it seems to be just on the verge of falling apart.
External links
- BBC Sleevenotes radio interview about Chloe Aridjis's musical taste.
- Chloe Aridjis interview with Zett Aguado in Nighttrain Magazine.
- Frieze Magazine | Archive | Ideal Syllabus: Chloe Aridjis
- Interview with Chloe Aridjis about 'Book of Clouds' in Exberliner Magazine][permanent dead link]
- Biography from the Berlin International Literature Festival
- Chloe Aridjis at IMDb
- Los Angeles Times review of "Book of Clouds"
- New York Times review of 'Book of Clouds'
- First chapter of 'Book of Clouds', The New York Times
- 'Portrait of my Father' Granta
- Chloe Aridjis reads 'Ghost Stations'
- interview with chloe aridjis on Mexican TV