Chloe Aridjis is a Mexican and American novelist and writer born in New York City in 1971. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Aridjis published her debut novel, Book of Clouds, in 2009. The novel was published in eight countries and won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger, establishing her as an emerging literary voice. Her second novel, Asunder, was published in 2013 and received unanimous critical acclaim. In 2019, she published her third novel, Sea Monsters, which was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2020. Her fourth novel, The Shadow of the Object, was published in April 2026 and was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026.