André Aciman

André Aciman at the Berlinale 2017 for the presentation of the film Call Me By Your Name

André Aciman (born January 2, 1951 in Alexandria , Egypt ) is an American writer and literary scholar. In addition to American citizenship , he also has Italian citizenship .

Life

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. When the situation of Jews in Egypt worsened under President Gamal Abdel Nasser , he moved with his family to Italy at the age of fifteen, and later to New York at the age of nineteen .

Aciman studied at Lehman College of the City University of New York ( BA 1973) and at the Harvard University ( MA 1980, Ph.D. 1988). From 1990 to 1997 he taught as an assistant professor in the Romance Studies department at Princeton University , then until 2001 at Bard College . Since 2001 he has been a professor at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. His main research interests are the French literature of the 17th and 18th centuries (especially the roman d'analysis and the Madame de Lafayette ), the works of Marcel Proust and the memoirs of French modernism up to the present day.

For his own 1994 memoir (Out of Egypt) he won the Whiting Writers' Award in 1995 . He has also published three novels to date and numerous essays in newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times , The New Yorker and The New Republic . In 2017, the film adaptation Call Me by Your Name , based on his book of the same name , was published, in which he himself played a small role.

Aciman is married to Susan Wiviott and has three children.

Works

• Out of Egypt . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 1994, ISBN 0-374-22833-7 .
  • German: Back then in Alexandria - memory of a vanished world . Hanser, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-446-18521-6 .
• False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2000, ISBN 0-374-29978-1 .
  • German: Capitals of Memory: From Alexandria to New York . Hanser, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-446-20474-1 .
• Call Me By Your Name . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-374-29921-7 .
  • German: Call me by your name . Kein & Aber , Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-0369-5515-5 .
• Eight White Nights . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-374-22842-2 .
  • German: Eight bright nights . Kein & Aber, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-0369-5572-8 .
• Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-374-10275-3 .
• Harvard Square . WW Norton & Co., New York 2013, ISBN 978-0-393-08860-1 .
  • German: My summer with Kalashnikov . Kein & Aber, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-0369-5687-9 .
• Enigma Variations . Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York 2017, ISBN 978-0-374-14843-0 .
  • German: Five loves long . Dtv Verlagsgesellschaft , Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-423-28195-9 .

• Find me . Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York 2019, ISBN 978-0-374-15501-8 .
  • German: Find Me, Find Me . Dtv Verlagsgesellschaft , Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-423-28230-7 .

Awards

• 2008: Lambda Literary Award in the Gay General Fiction category for Call Me By Your Name

Web links

Commons : André Aciman  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about André Aciman in the catalog of the German National Library
• André Aciman: The Exodus Obama Forgot to Mention. In: New York Times . June 8, 2009. Retrieved September 21, 2009 . 
• An interview with Andre Aciman , bookslut.com
• Novelist and Visiting Prof. Andre Aciman Shares His Creative Process , The Wesleyan Argus
• Literature blog review of Aciman's debut novel Call Me by Your Name

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In a Double Life . ( nytimes.com [accessed March 14, 2018]).
2. ^ André Aciman, Author Of 'Call Me By Your Name,' Confronts Exile And Desire . In: The Forward . ( forward.com [accessed March 12, 2018]).
3. ↑ 'Call Me by Your Name' author: Don't be afraid of same-sex crushes . In: New York Post . November 20, 2017 ( nypost.com [accessed March 14, 2018]).
4. ↑ Antonio Gonzalez Cerna: 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. In: Lambda Literary. April 30, 2007, accessed March 27, 2019 .