1. Chloe Aridjis was born on 1971 and is a Mexican and American novelist and writer.
10 Facts About Chloe Aridjis
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Chloe Aridjis is the eldest daughter of Mexican poet and diplomat Homero Aridjis and American Betty F de Aridjis, an environmental activist and translator.
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Chloe Aridjis is the sister of film maker Eva Aridjis.
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Chloe Aridjis has a doctorate in nineteenth-century French poetry and magic from the University of Oxford.
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Chloe Aridjis met great poets such as Jorge Luis Borges and Ted Hughes at international poetry festivals her parents organised in the early 1980s.
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Chloe Aridjis publishes in journals and newspapers in England, Mexico, among them essays for Granta on insomnia and the psychological fallout of space travel on Soviet cosmonauts.
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Chloe Aridjis lived in Berlin for five years, and currently resides in London.
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Chloe Aridjis was co-curator of the Leonora Carrington exhibition at Tate Liverpool that opened in March 2015 and she occasionally writes for frieze and other art journals.
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Chloe Aridjis is a member of Writers Rebel, a group of writers that focuses on the climate emergency.
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Chloe Aridjis is particularly interested in issues involving species extinction, and animal welfare in general.