About André Aciman
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 2008 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction), which was made into a film, and the 1995 memoir Out of Egypt, which won a Whiting Award. Though best known for Call Me by Your Name, Aciman said in a 2019 interview that he views the novel Eight White Nights as his best book. == 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 largely French-speaking home, where family members also 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).
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