Chloe Aridjis
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Chloe Aridjis, born 1971 in New York, U.S. is a Mexican 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.
[edit] Biography
Born in New York, U.S., grew up in Mexico City 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, under the supervision of Malcolm Bowie. 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, Mexico and currently resides in Berlin, where she is working on a novel and short stories.
[edit] 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, for whom she has worked as stills photographer.
