PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
1 appearances
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Edition 40 (2020) Winner
Chloe Aridjis
クロエ・アリディス
Chloe Aridjis
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1971-01-01 （New York City）
- Nationality
- Mexican, American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- New York City (birth) → Mexico City → Netherlands → Berlin (5 years) → London (current)
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Writer, Essayist
- Active Years
- 2002-
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Member of Writers Rebel
- Influenced By
- Homero Aridjis (father), Charles Baudelaire, Jorge Luis Borges, Ted Hughes, Nikolai Gogol, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Franz Kafka, Miguel de Cervantes, Edgar Allan Poe, Horacio Quiroga, Gérard de Nerval, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Walter Benjamin, Robert Walser, Gaston Bachelard, Comte de Lautréamont, René Daumal
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard University | — | Comparative Literature | BA | — | United States |
| University of Oxford | — | Nineteenth-century French poetry and magic | PhD | — | United Kingdom |
Harvard University
Comparative Literature
Degree:
BA
Country:
United States
Studied comparative literature
University of Oxford
Nineteenth-century French poetry and magic
Degree:
PhD
Country:
United Kingdom
Thesis on Baudelaire's 'Night and the Poetic Self', doctorate on magic and literary fantastique in 19th-century France
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Prix du Premier Roman Étranger | Book of Clouds | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2020 | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction | Sea Monsters | — | PEN/Faulkner Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2023 | Prado Museum Writing the Prado Residency | — | — | Prado Museum | 受賞 |
| 2014 | Guggenheim Fellowship | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2020 | Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writers Award | Reports from the Land of the Bats | — | — | 受賞 |
Prix du Premier Roman Étranger
2009
Work:
Book of Clouds
Result:
受賞
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
2020
Work:
Sea Monsters
Organization:
PEN/Faulkner Foundation
Result:
受賞
Prado Museum Writing the Prado Residency
2023
Organization:
Prado Museum
Result:
受賞
Guggenheim Fellowship
2014
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
受賞
Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writers Award
2020
Work:
Reports from the Land of the Bats
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Book of Clouds
2009 Literary fictionA debut novel set in Berlin, featuring fantastical depictions of clouds and the city.
CloudsBerlinFantasy
Translations
- French graphic novel edition
- Dutch edition
- Mexican edition
- Spanish edition
- Romanian edition
- Croatian edition
Asunder
2013 Literary fictionA surreal tale of two museum guards at London's National Gallery where life and art intertwine.
MuseumsArt and realityDisintegration
Sea Monsters
2019 Magical realismA hypnotic narrative of disenchantment, symbolist novel.
SeaMonstersDisenchantment
Dialogue With a Somnambulist
2021 Stories, EssaysCollection of stories, essays, and a portrait gallery.
SomnambulismFantasy
Bibliography
- Magic and the Literary Fantastique in Nineteenth-Century France (2002)
- Topografía de lo insólito (2005)
- Book of Clouds (2009)
- Asunder (2013)
- Sea Monsters (2019)
- Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & a Portrait Gallery (2021)
Translations by Author
- The Child Poet (translation of father's book, 2016)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Poetics of the strangeSurrealSymbolist
- Recurring Motifs
- MagicLiterary fantastiqueClouds, sea, museums
Legacy
A significant contemporary writer exploring boundaries of magical realism and literary fiction. Acclaimed with PEN/Faulkner Award. Interested in climate emergency and animal welfare.
Academic Societies
- Royal Society of Literature
In Popular Culture
- Starred in Josh Appignanesi's film 'Female Human Animal' (2018)
Trivia
- Vegetarian since 1986
- Daughter of Mexican poet and diplomat Homero Aridjis
- Sister of filmmaker Eva Aridjis
- Met poets like Borges and Hughes as a teenager