André Aciman

André Aciman (born 2 January 1951) is an Egyptian-born writer, currently distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust. He is the author of several novels, including the 2007 Lambda Literary Award winner for Gay Fiction Call Me by Your Name and his 1995 memoir, Out of Egypt which won a Whiting Award. Aciman previously taught creative writing at New York University and French literature at Princeton. In 2009 he was Visiting Distinguished Writer at Wesleyan University. 2Early 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 also spoke Italian, Greek, Ladino and Arabic. His parents were Jewish, of Turkish and Italian origin, from families that had settled in Alexandria in 1905. Aciman moved with his family to Italy when he was a teenager and a few years later to New York. He obtained a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Lehman College and an A.M. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard Universit