Chloe Aridjis

Chloe Aridjis is a Mexican-American novelist born in New York City in 1971. The daughter of the Mexican poet and environmentalist Homero Aridjis, she grew up in Mexico City, the Netherlands, and the United States. She studied at Harvard University and received her doctorate from Balliol College, Oxford. Aridjis is the author of three novels: Book of Clouds (2009), which won the French Prix du Premier Roman Étranger; Asunder (2013); and Sea Monsters (2019), a short, dreamy novel set in 1987 Mexico about a teenage girl who runs away to the Pacific Coast. Sea Monsters won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2020 and was praised for its atmosphere, its dreamlike prose, and its acute portrait of adolescent restlessness and longing. Aridjis's fiction is distinguished by its European sensibility, its preoccupation with solitude, liminality, and the uncanny, and its spare, evocative prose. She divides her time between London and Mexico City.