André Aciman (/ˈæsɪmən/;[1] 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.[2][3] Aciman previously taught creative writing at New York University and French literature at Princeton University and Bard College.[4][5][6]
In 2009, he was Visiting Distinguished Writer at Wesleyan University.[7][8][9]
He is the author of several novels, including Call Me by Your Name (winner of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award[10] in the Gay Fiction category and made into a film) and a 1995 memoir, Out of Egypt, which won a Whiting Award.[11] Although best known for Call Me by Your Name,[12] Aciman stated in an interview in 2019 that his best book is the novel Eight White Nights.[13]
