Chloe Aridjis is a London-based Mexican writer. She is the oldest daughter of writer and diplomat Homero Aridjis

Homero Aridjis

Homero Aridjis is a Mexican poet, novelist, environmental activist, journalist and diplomat known for his independence.-Family and Early Life:...

 and Betty Ferber de Aridjis, an environmental activist & translator. She is the sister of film maker Eva Aridjis

Eva Aridjis

Eva S. Aridjis, born 1974 in Holland, Netherlands while her father was serving there as Mexico's ambassador, is a Mexican filmmaker. She later attended the American School Foundation in Mexico City, Princeton University, and New York University...

, for whom she has worked as stills photographer.

Biography

Born in New York

New York

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, U.S.

United States

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, grew up in Mexico City

Mexico City

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 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

University of Oxford

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, under the supervision of Malcolm Bowie

Malcolm Bowie

Malcolm McNaughtan Bowie FBA was a British academic, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2002 to 2006. An acclaimed scholar of French literature, Bowie wrote several books on Marcel Proust....

. 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

England

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, Mexico

Mexico

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 and after five years in Berlin currently resides in London

London

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, 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

Chatto and Windus

Chatto & Windus has been, since 1987, an imprint of Random House, publishers. It was originally an important publisher of books in London, founded in the Victorian era....

 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

The Independent

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, Daniel Hahn

Daniel Hahn

Daniel Hahn is a British writer and translator.He is the author of the history book The Tower Menagerie and the translator of Pelé's autobiography...

 described it as an "exceptional debut novel". In November 2009, Book of Clouds won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in France.

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
• http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Portrait-of-my-father-Chloe-Aridjis'Portrait of my Father' Granta
  Granta
  Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centers on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated, "In its blend of...
  
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• Chloe Aridjis reads 'Ghost Stations'
• interview with chloe aridjis by_zett aguado at night train magazine