Chloe Aridjis
Chloe Aridjis was born in New York and grew up in the Netherlands and Mexico City. After receiving a BA from Harvard, she went on to receive a PhD from Oxford University. She is the author of three novels: Book of Clouds, which won the 2009 Prix du premier roman étranger in France, Asunder and Sea Monsters. She writes for various art journals and was a guest curator at Tate Liverpool. In 2014 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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In Conversation | The Online Edition
Chloe Aridjis | Interview
Chloe Aridjis & Ted Hodgkinson
‘What really struck me was the way the Suffragettes were pathologized, and the way women who took a political stance were deemed ‘hysterical’ in some way.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Chloe Aridjis | Portrait of My Father
Chloe Aridjis
‘My father has always said that he was born twice.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Into the Cosmos
Chloe Aridjis
‘In those fervently atheist times, it wasn’t God or his angelic messengers who would come forth from the sky, but the cosmonaut.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Kopfkino
Chloe Aridjis
‘Yet the little white disks with a dent down the middle are no panacea; whenever I take one of these thought guillotines I feel trapped in a grey zone’.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 146
The Tension of Transience
Chloe Aridjis
‘How unusual that April night had been, yet how normal it had seemed at the time’