“My name is Chloé Delaume. I am a fictional character. I say it, I say it again and again, everywhere I go I affirm it. I write myself in books, texts, sound pieces. I decided to become a fictional character when I realized that I was already one. The only difference is that I wasn’t writing myself. Others were doing it. A secondary character in a family fiction and a passive extra in the collective fiction. I chose writing to reclaim my body, my actions, and my identity.”
Chloé Delaume was born in 1973. She has been writing in many forms and media since the late 1990s. She has written nearly thirty books as if they were experiments: novels, poetic fragments, plays, essays, self-fiction. She is fond of hybrid objects and the mixing of genres: a novel illustrated by a video game (Corpus Simsi), the hijacking of a board game (Certainement pas), fan fiction in which you are the hero (La nuit je suis Buffy Summers). But also diary of a home performance (J’habite dans la télévision), dystopia (Les sorcières de la République). If her first novel, Les mouflettes d’Atropos, was tinged with radical feminism, she later focused on the issue of sisterhood by publishing Mes bien chères sœurs and the collective work Sororité.
Winner of the Prix Décembre 2001 for Le cri du sablier, she was a resident at the Villa Médicis in 2010-2011 and won the Prix Médicis 2020 with Le cœur synthétique.
