André Aciman

André Aciman ( born January 2, 1951 in Alexandria, Egypt) is an Egyptian author and distinguished professor at the City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust. His memoir, Out of Egypt (1995), won the Whiting Writers' Award. Previously, he taught creative writing at New York University and French literature at Princeton University. 2009 Aciman Visiting Distinguished Writer at Wesleyan University was.

Aciman was born in Egypt, in a French-speaking home where the family members also spoke Italian, Greek, Arabic, and Ladino. His family were Sephardic Jews of Turkish and Italian descent, who had settled in Alexandria in 1905. Aciman moved with his family at the age of fifteen years to Italy and at the age of nineteen, then to New York.

• Out of Egypt ( memoirs ) ( 1995)
• False papers: essays on exile and memory (2000)
• The Proust Project ( 2004)
• Call me by your name (novel ) (2007 )
• Eight bright nights (novel ) (2010 )