Chloe Aridjis, born 1971 in New York, USA is an American writer, currently lives in Berlin, Germany. She is the oldest daughter of writer Homero Aridjis and Betty Ferber de Aridjis, an environmental activist & translator.
Biography
Born in New York, USA, grew up in Mexico City and Holland, where her father was serving there as Mexico's ambassador, she studied Comparative Literature at Harvard and then received a PhD from the University of Oxford. Her book of essays on Magic and Poetry in Nineteenth-century France was released in 2005. She has published in magazines and newspapers in England, Mexico and currently resides in Berlin, where she is working on a collection of short stories and a novel.
Miscellanea
- She is of American descent on her mother's side and Greek-Mexican on her father's.
- She is the sister of filmmaker Eva Aridjis.