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Novelist and short-story writer · Mexico City · London
Chloe Aridjis is a Mexican-British novelist and writer based in London. She is the author of Book of Clouds, Asunder, Sea Monsters, which won the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and The Shadow of the Object, longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize.
Begin with the work
N. and her mother cross London on the Central line — Oxford Circus, Chancery Lane, St Paul’s — while a family house in Mexico keeps unsettling the idea of home. Her short story for Litro’s Mexico edition.
Work at Litro
From contributor to guest editor
In 2015 she published Pigeon in Litro’s Mexico edition. Two years later she returned on the other side of the desk, guest-editing Breaking Borders — the Latin America edition — gathering writers connected with eight countries.
Litro #142 · Mexico · 2015
In print
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