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André Aciman (; born 2 January 1951) is an Italian-American writer. Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, he is currently a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust. Aciman previously taught creative writing at New York University and French literature at Princeton University and Bard College.In 2009, he was Visiting Distinguished Writer at Wesleyan University.He is the author of several novels, including Call Me by Your Name (winner of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Fiction category and made into a film) and a 1995 memoir, Out of Egypt, which won a Whiting Award. Although best known for Call Me by Your Name, Aciman stated in an interview in 2019 that his best book is the novel Eight White Nights. Early life and education Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt, the son of Regine and Henri N. Aciman, who owned a knitting factory. His mother was deaf. Aciman was raised in a French-speaking home where family members spoke Italian, Greek, Ladino, and Arabic.His parents were Sephardic Jews, of Turkish and Italian origin, from families that had settled in Alexandria in 1905 (Turkish surname: Acıman). As members of one of the Mutamassirun ("foreign") communities, his family members were unable to become Egyptian citizens. As a child, Aciman mistakenly believed that he was a French citizen. He attended British schools in Egypt. His family was spared from the 1956–57 exodus and expulsions from Egypt. However, increased tensions with Israel under President Gamal Abdel Nasser put Jews in a precarious position and his family left Egypt nine years later in 1965.After his father purchased Italian citizenship for the family, Aciman moved with his mother and brother as refugees to Rome while his father moved to Paris. They moved to New York City in 1968. He earned a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Lehman College in 1973, and an M.A. and PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 1988. Out of Egypt Aciman's 1996 memoir Out of Egypt, about Alexandria before the 1956 expulsions from Egypt, was reviewed widely. In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani described the book as a "remarkable memoir...that leaves the reader with a mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world." She compared his work with that of Lawrence Durrell and noted, "There are some wonderfully vivid scenes here, as strange and marvelous as something in García Márquez. Personal life Aciman is married to Susan Wiviott. They have three sons, Alexander and twins Philip and Michael. His wife, a graduate of University of Wisconsin–Madison and Harvard Law School, is the CEO of the Bridge, Inc., a New York City-based nonprofit organization that offers rehabilitative services. She is also a board director of Kadmon Holdings, Inc., and formerly worked as Chief Program Officer of Palladia and Deputy Executive Vice President of JBFCS. Awards 1995 Whiting Award 2007 Lambda Literary AwardBibliography Novels Call Me by Your Name (2007) Eight White Nights (2010) Harvard Square (2013) Enigma Variations (2017) Find Me (2019)Short fiction "Cat's Cradle". The New Yorker. November 1997. "Monsieur Kalashnikov". The Paris Review. 181. Summer 2007. "Abingdon Square". Granta. 122 (Betrayal). January 2013.Non-fiction Out of Egypt (memoir) (1995) Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss (editor/contributor) (1999) False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory (2000) Entrez: Signs of France (with Steven Rothfeld) (2001) The Proust Project (editor) (2004) The Light of New York (with Jean-Michel Berts) (2007) Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere (2011) Homo Irrealis: Essays (2021)Selected articles "Reflections of an Uncertain Jew". The Threepenny Review. 81. Spring 2000. "The Exodus Obama Forgot to Mention". Opinion. The New York Times. 8 June 2009. "Are You Listening? Conversations with my deaf mother". Personal History. The New Yorker. 17 March 2014. "W. G. Sebald and the Emigrants". The New Yorker. 25 August 2016. "André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon". By the Book. The New York Times. 31 October 2019.References Further reading Aciman, André (8 June 2009). "The Exodus Obama Forgot to Mention". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 September 2009.External links An Interview with Andre Aciman, bookslut.com Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine Andre Aciman on Writing, His Work and Inspirations on YouTube "Novelist and Visiting Prof. Andre Aciman Shares His Creative Process". The Wesleyan Argus. 27 March 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2017. André Aciman profile, The Whiting Foundation website; accessed 8 March 2018.. Discover the Andre Aciman popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Andre Aciman books.
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Thirst for Salt
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Homo Irrealis
André AcimanEL NUEVO LIBRO DEL AUTOR DE LLÁMAME POR TU NOMBRE Y LEJOS DE EGIPTO, GANADOR DEL WHITING AWARD Y EL LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD, TRADUCIDO A 38 IDIOMAS Y ACLAMADO POR LA CRÍTICA Y LOS LE...
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Third Time Lucky
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The Moon and the Bonfires
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The Language of Love and Loss
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Damals im Sommer
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The Last Romeo
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A Very Special Year
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Inverno
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In the Absence of Men
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The First Time We Met
Pippa CroftFans of E. L. James, Sylvia Day and Samantha Young will love this sizzling new romance . . . When US Senator's daughter Lauren Cusack arrives at the enchanting Wyckham College of O...
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Lie With Me
Philippe Besson“I remember the movement of his hips pressing against the pinball machine. This one sentence had me in its grip until the end. Two young men find each other, always fearing that li...
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Different Boys
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All Men Want to Know
Nina Bouraoui & Aneesa Abbas Higgins'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive a novel that has to be surrendered to rather than read' Sarah Waters AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD ...
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Going Dutch
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The Good Book
Andrew BlaunerThirtytwo prominent writers share the Bible passages most meaningful to them in this “Sunday School class you’ve been waiting for” (Garrison Keillor).The Good Book, with an introdu...
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The Lydia Steptoe Stories
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Misrecognition
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The Second Time I Saw You
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Olivia
Dorothy Strachey & André Aciman"I read Olivia many, many times, bought it for many of my friends, and consider it the inspiration for Call Me by Your Name." André Aciman"Perfectly captures the breathless excitem...