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Chloe Aridjis

Chloe Aridjis is a Mexican-British novelist and writer

Aridjis is the author of Book of Clouds, which won the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in France, Asunder, and Sea Monsters, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, as well as the collection Dialogue with a Somnambulist; Stories, Essays, and a Portrait Gallery.  She writes for various art journals and was a guest curator at Tate Liverpool. In 2014, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in London. 

The Shadow of the Object was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026.  

All nominated books