Chloé Delaume

Wanting to become a teacher like her mother, she enrolled in the Modern Literature program at Université de Paris X until her master's degree, and began an unfinished thesis on Pataphysics in the works of Boris Vian.

The first name 'Chloé' was borrowed from the heroine of Boris Vian's L'Écume des jours, and the surname 'Delaume' came from Antonin Artaud's work L'Arve et l'Aume: ' there is a death of civil identity because I did not choose it.

From September to December 2001 she was a resident at Centre international de poésie Marseille,[7] where she wrote "Monologue pour épluchures d’Atrides", published in 2003 by CipM/Spectres familiers.

[11] By the end of 2010 Chloé Delaume became the director of a collection titled « Extraction[12] » for éditions Joca Seria, aiming to primarily publish experimental literature.

Between 6 May 2012 (the date of and 16 July 2012, she wrote a weekly column on François Hollande's presidency titled "Bienvenue à Normaland" on the website of Arrêt sur images.

[14] In 2017 she developed the cycle "Liberté-Parité-Sororité" with the writer residency program of the Île-de-France region, at the Violette and Co bookstore, while conducting writing workshops at the Palais de la Femme.

In 2021 she edited the collective work "Sororité", published by Points Féminisme, which features contributions from fourteen authors, including Lydie Salvayre, Lola Lafon, Ovidie, Camille Froidevaux-Metterie, and Alice Coffin.

From 2021 to 2023 she organized a monthly reading event called "La petite veillée" at the feminist café "Chez Mona" in Paris, where she invited new voices and highlighted poetry.

[24] She defines her literary endeavor as a 'politics of revolution of the self,' with an internal intention to 'refuse the fables that saturate reality, the collective, familial, cultural, religious, institutional, social, economic, political, and media fictions.'

(La Règle du Je) She cites multiple sources of inspiration, ranging from Pierre Guyotat to Christine Angot, as well as Marguerite Duras, Sophie Calle, Guillaume Apollinaire, and the verses of Jean Racine.

Dans ma maison sous terre", published in 2009, pushes the performative aspect of her work to its peak: the novel becomes a weapon with the sole intention of provoking the death of Chloé Delaume's grandmother[25] · .

In 2013 she co-authored Où le sang nous appelle (Seuil) with Daniel Schneidermann, a novel dedicated to Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who is both her uncle and the presumed leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions.

[27] In 2015 she experimented with digital writing and published "Alienare", a hybrid book combining text, film, and music, with illustrator Franck Dion.

[28] In 2016 she published "Les Sorcières de la République", a whimsical dystopia where the feminist revolution fails due to rivalry among women.