André Aciman

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André Aciman
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André Aciman in 2009
Born January 2, 1951
Alexandria, Egypt[1]
Occupation writer
Period 1990s-2000s
Genre short story, novel, essay

André Aciman (born 2 January 1951 in Alexandria, Egypt)[1][2] is a writer, currently distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of City University of New York[3] teaching the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust.[4] His memoir, Out of Egypt (1995), won a Whiting Award.[5] He previously taught creative writing at New York University and French literature at Princeton University.[2][6] In 2009 Aciman was Visiting Distinguished Writer at Wesleyan University.[7][8][9] His influences include Marcel Proust[10] and James Joyce.[11]

Aciman was born in Egypt in a French-speaking home where family members also spoke Italian, Greek, Ladino, and Arabic.[2] His family were Jews of Turkish and Italian origin who settled in Alexandria, Egypt in 1905.[6] Aciman moved with his family to Italy at the age of fifteen and then to New York at nineteen.[2]

He has a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Lehman College and an A.M. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University.

Out of Egypt

Aciman's 1995 memoir, Out of Egypt, was reviewed widely.[12][13] In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani described the volume as a "remarkable memoir...that leaves the reader with a mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world."[6] She compared his work with that of Lawrence Durrell and also wrote: "There are some wonderfully vivid scenes here, as strange and marvelous as something in Garcia Marquez, as comical and surprising as something in Chekhov."[6]

Awards

Works

Books

  • Out of Egypt (memoir) (1995)[3][4]
  • False papers: essays on exile and memory (2000)[3][4]
  • The Proust Project (2004)[3]
  • Call Me by Your Name (novel) (2007)[10][14][15]
  • Eight White Nights (novel) (2010)
  • Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere (2011)
  • Harvard Square (novel) (2013)

Essays and short fiction

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Epstein, Joseph. "Funny, But I Do Look Jewish" at the Wayback Machine (archived December 18, 2005), The Weekly Standard December 15, 2003
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Meet the author: Aciman says he's all his characters, Marin Independent Journal, May 24, 2008
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  12. ↑ "Exodus From Egypt," The Washington Post, Feb. 15, 1995, P. D02
  13. ↑ Walters, Colin. "Visit to 'very small, very strange world'" The Washington Times, March 19, 1995, Page B6
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External links

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