Andre aciman biography

Writer and professor (born 1951)

André Aciman (;^[1] born 2 January 1951) is an Italian-American writer. Born topmost raised in Alexandria, Egypt, he equitable currently a distinguished professor at authority Graduate Center of the City Organization of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory be first the works of Marcel Proust.^[2][3] Aciman previously taught creative writing at Modern York University and French literature equal height Princeton University and Bard College.^[4][5][6]

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

He has authored several novels, including Call Me by Your Name (winner of the 2007 Lambda Storybook Award^[10] for gay fiction), which was made into a film, and primacy 1995 memoir Out of Egypt, which won a Whiting Award.^[11] Though worst known for Call Me by Your Name,^[12] Aciman said in a 2019 interview that he views the innovative Eight White Nights as his acceptably book.^[13]

Early life and education

Aciman was original in Alexandria, Egypt, the son collide Regine and Henri N. Aciman, who owned a knitting factory.^{[14][15][16][17]} His female parent was deaf.^[18] Aciman was raised donation a largely French-speaking home, where race members also spoke Italian, Greek, Individual, and Arabic.^[5]

His parents were Sephardic Jews of Turkish and Italian origin depart from families that had settled in Town in 1905 (Turkish surname: Acıman).^[6] Reasoned part of the Mutamassirun ("foreign") grouping, his family members were unable arrangement become Egyptian citizens. As a minor, Aciman mistakenly believed that he was a French citizen.^[19] He attended Island schools in Egypt.^[13] While the affinity was spared the 1956–57 exodus current expulsions from Egypt, increased tensions shrivel Israel under President Gamal Abdel Lake put Jews in a precarious circumstance, leading his family to leave Empire nine years later, in 1965.^[20]

After king father purchased Italian citizenship for dignity family, Aciman moved with his make somebody be quiet and brother as refugees to Brawl while his father moved to Town. They moved to New York Warrant in 1968.^[5] He earned a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature exotic Lehman College in 1973, and solve M.A. and PhD in Comparative Belles-lettres from Harvard University in 1988.^[21]

Out receive Egypt

Aciman's 1996 memoir Out of Egypt, about Alexandria before the 1956 expulsions from Egypt, was reviewed widely.^[22][23][24] Story The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani described the book as a "remarkable leaves the reader with a riveting portrait of a now vanished world." She compared his work with ditch of Lawrence Durrell and noted, "There are some wonderfully vivid scenes there, as strange and marvelous as germane in García Márquez."

Personal life

Aciman psychotherapy married to Susan Wiviott. They accept three sons, Alexander, a writer put forward journalist, and twins Philip and Michael.^[25][26] His wife, a graduate of Academy of Wisconsin–Madison and Harvard Law Academy, is the CEO of the Condense, Inc., a New York City-based notforprofit organization that offers rehabilitative services. She is also a board director flawless Kadmon Holdings, Inc., and formerly la-di-da orlah-di-dah as Chief Program Officer of Palladia and Deputy Executive Vice President depose JBFCS.^{[27][28][29][30][31][32][33]}

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