André Aciman

Andre Aciman was born in Alexandria in 1951. His family—Jews with roots in Istanbul and Italy—was forced to leave Egypt in 1965 during Nasser's regime and settled in Italy. In 1968, they moved again to New York, where Aciman has lived ever since. A graduate of Lehman College and Harvard, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a distinguished professor of Literary Theory at the City University of New York, he is also a Proust specialist and the author of four novels and several essays. His works have been published in the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, New York Times, Paris Review, and in the anthology The Best American Essays. Among other accolades, his autobiographical work "Out of Egypt" (Metaichmio, 2013) was honored with the Whiting Writers’ Award. He is married with three children. His previous novel "Call Me by Your Name" (Metaichmio, 2018) achieved great international success and was adapted into a film starring Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer.