Call Me By Your Name won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award in the category of Gay Fiction.Īciman lives with his wife and two sons in Manhattan. He has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. He has also published four other non-fiction books and three novels, among which is Call Me By Your Name (2007), which was adapted into a 2017 film directed by Luca Guadagnino, with a screenplay by James Ivory, and starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. He has also taught creative writing at Cooper Union and Yeshiva University.Īciman’s memoir Out of Egypt (1995), which deals with his life as a Jewish boy in post-colonial Egypt, was reviewed widely and received the Whiting Award. Find all books by Andre Aciman and compare prices Find signed collectible books. He went on to teach creative writing at New York University, French literature at Princeton and Bard College, and (currently) history of literary theory and Proust at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 1988. in English and Comparative Literature from Lehman College in 1973 and an M.A. In 1995, Barry Unsworth wrote for the Book Review about Out of. He grew up in a multilingual, Jewish family attending English language schools in Alexandria and Rome before moving to New York City in 1968. 13, 2019 This week, Josh Duboff reviews Andr Aciman’s Find Me, the sequel to his 2007 novel Call Me by Your Name. We will not be able to accommodate walk-ups until further notice.André Aciman is an Egyptian-born, American essayist and novelist. This event is FREE and open to the general public. No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays.ĭuring his time in Woody Creek, CO André will be working on his new book, “Monsieur Henri.” The life of his father, a troubled man.
Aciman is the director of The Writers’ Institute and is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
He is also the Audible author of “The Gentleman from Peru” (Fall 2020), “Mariana” (Spring 2021) and “Idyll on the High Line” (Fall 2021). He is the New York Times best-selling author of “Call Me by Your Name” and “Find Me,” as well as of “Out of Egypt,” “Eight White Nights,” “Harvard Square,” “False Papers” and “Alibis.” “Homo Irrealis,” his latest collection of essays, was published in January 2021. André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist and scholar.
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