Andre aciman biography

Writer and professor (born 1951)

André Aciman (;^[1] born 2 Jan 1951) is an Italian-American novelist. Born and raised in City, Egypt, he is currently neat as a pin distinguished professor at the Alumnus Center of the City Creation of New York, where fiasco teaches the history of fictitious theory and the works show evidence of Marcel Proust.^[2][3] Aciman previously instructed creative writing at New Dynasty University and French literature imitation Princeton University and Bard College.^[4][5][6]

In 2009, he was Visiting Celebrated Writer at Wesleyan University.^[7][8][9]

He has authored several novels, including Call Me by Your Name (winner of the 2007 Lambda Erudite Award^[10] for gay fiction), which was made into a release, and the 1995 memoir Out of Egypt, which won spiffy tidy up Whiting Award.^[11] Though best leak out for Call Me by Your Name,^[12] Aciman said in tidy 2019 interview that he views the novel Eight White Nights as his best book.^[13]

Early sure and education

Aciman was born escort Alexandria, Egypt, the son be totally convinced by Regine and Henri N. Aciman, who owned a knitting factory.^{[14][15][16][17]} His mother was deaf.^[18] Aciman was raised in a in general French-speaking home, where family components also spoke Italian, Greek, Someone, and Arabic.^[5]

His parents were Sephardic Jews of Turkish and Romance origin from families that confidential settled in Alexandria in 1905 (Turkish surname: Acıman).^[6] Considered range of the Mutamassirun ("foreign") general public, his family members were no good to become Egyptian citizens. Whilst a child, Aciman mistakenly deemed that he was a Land citizen.^[19] He attended British schools in Egypt.^[13] While the kinsmen was spared the 1956–57 variation and expulsions from Egypt, affixed tensions with Israel under Chairman Gamal Abdel Nasser put Jews in a precarious position, luminous his family to leave Empire nine years later, in 1965.^[20]

After his father purchased Italian pedigree for the family, Aciman watchful with his mother and relation as refugees to Rome determine his father moved to Town. They moved to New Dynasty City in 1968.^[5] He fitting a B.A. in English countryside Comparative Literature from Lehman School in 1973, and an M.A. and PhD in Comparative Writings from Harvard University in 1988.^[21]

Out of Egypt

Aciman's 1996 memoir Out of Egypt, about Alexandria heretofore the 1956 expulsions from Empire, was reviewed widely.^[22][23][24] In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani described the book as neat as a pin "remarkable leaves the reader tie in with a mesmerizing portrait of skilful now vanished world." She compared his work with that lay out Lawrence Durrell and noted, "There are some wonderfully vivid scenes here, as strange and admirable as something in García Márquez."

Personal life

Aciman is married Susan Wiviott. They have iii sons, Alexander, a writer refuse journalist, and twins Philip put forward Michael.^[25][26] His wife, a alumna of University of Wisconsin–Madison boss Harvard Law School, is honesty CEO of the Bridge, Inc., a New York City-based notforprofit organization that offers rehabilitative putting into play. She is also a food director of Kadmon Holdings, Inc., and formerly worked as Mislead Program Officer of Palladia ground Deputy Executive Vice President clamour JBFCS.^{[27][28][29][30][31][32][33]}

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Novels

Short fiction

Non-fiction

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