Chloé Delaume

Dawn Cornelio (University of Guelph)

Ed. by Siobhán McIlvanney, King's College London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Nicole Kennedy (University of Newcastle), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 10 Mar 1973
Activity 2001-ongoing

Places

Active in France

Cultural Identities

Feminist

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Resources

Delaume's Works

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“My name is Chloé Delaume. I’m a fictional character.” For more than twenty years, these sentences have been a hallmark of Chloé Delaume’s autofiction, and they have intrigued researchers and academics who have been examining her particular style of life-writing. The hallmark of that writing is a provocative, opaque style combined with dark humour and wordplay. According to Delaume, her writing is a means to control the construction of her identity, which, during her childhood and teenage years, centred on her being the daughter of a father who had murdered his wife before committing suicide on June 20, 1983 in the family’s public housing

apartment. The construction of an autonomous identity anchored in the pseudonym Chloé Delaume has been central to the majority of…

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Citation: Cornelio, Dawn. "Chloé Delaume". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 February 2025 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14887, accessed 29 March 2025.]