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André Aciman

January 17, 2023

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 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 and Bard College.[4][5][6]

André Aciman
Aciman in 2017
Born (1951-01-02) 2 January 1951 (age 72)
Alexandria, Egypt
Occupation
  • Writer
  • professor
Nationality
  • Italian
  • American
Alma mater
Period1995–present
GenreShort story, novel, essay
Notable workCall Me by Your Name (2007)
SpouseSusan Wiviott
Children3, including Alexander
Signature

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, in the Gay Fiction category, of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award[10] 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]

Early life and education

Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt, the son of Regine and Henri N. Aciman, who owned a knitting factory.[14][15][16][17] His mother was deaf.[18] Aciman was raised in a French-speaking home where family members spoke Italian, Greek, Ladino, and Arabic.[5]

His parents were Sephardic Jews, of Turkish and Italian origin, from families that had settled in Alexandria in 1905 (Turkish surname: Acıman).[6] As members of one of the Mutamassirun ("foreign") communities, his family members were unable to become Egyptian citizens. As a child, Aciman mistakenly believed that he was a French citizen.[19] He attended British schools in Egypt.[13] His family was spared from the 1956–57 exodus and expulsions from Egypt. However, increased tensions with Israel under President Gamal Abdel Nasser put Jews in a precarious position and his family left Egypt nine years later in 1965.[20]

After his father purchased Italian citizenship for the family, Aciman moved with his mother and brother as refugees to Rome while his father moved to Paris. They moved to New York City in 1968.[5] He earned a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Lehman College in 1973, and an M.A. and PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 1988.[21]

Out of Egypt

Aciman's 1996 memoir Out of Egypt, about Alexandria before the 1956 expulsions from Egypt, was reviewed widely.[22][23][24] In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani described the book as a "remarkable memoir...that leaves the reader with a mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world." She compared his work with that of Lawrence Durrell and noted, "There are some wonderfully vivid scenes here, as strange and marvelous as something in García Márquez, as comical and surprising as something in Chekhov."[6]

Personal life

Aciman is married to Susan Wiviott. They have three sons, Alexander and twins Philip and Michael.[25][26][27] His wife, a Wisconsin alumna and Harvard Law graduate, is the CEO of the Bridge, Inc., a New York City-based NPO that offers rehabilitative services. She is also a board director of Kadmon Holdings, Inc., and formerly worked as Chief Program Officer of Palladia and Deputy Executive Vice President of JBFCS.[28][29][30][31][32][33][34]

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

  • "Cat's Cradle". The New Yorker. November 1997.
  • "Monsieur Kalashnikov". The Paris Review. 181. Summer 2007.
  • "Abingdon Square". Granta. 122 (Betrayal). January 2013.

Non-fiction

  • Out of Egypt (memoir) (1995)[2][3]
  • Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss (editor/contributor) (1999)
  • False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory (2000)[2][3]
  • Entrez: Signs of France (with Steven Rothfeld) (2001)
  • The Proust Project (editor) (2004)[2][39]
  • The light of New York (with Jean-Michel Berts) (2007)
  • Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere (2011)
  • Homo Irrealis: Essays (2021)[40]

Selected articles

  • "Reflections of an Uncertain Jew". The Threepenny Review. 81. Spring 2000.
  • "The Exodus Obama Forgot to Mention". Opinion. The New York Times. 8 June 2009.
  • "Are You Listening? Conversations with my deaf mother". Personal History. The New Yorker. 17 March 2014.
  • "W. G. Sebald and the Emigrants". The New Yorker. 25 August 2016.
  • "André Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon". By the Book. The New York Times. 31 October 2019.

References

  1. ^ . Graduate Center, CUNY. 10 November 2015. Archived from the original on 10 March 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d . City University of New York. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 18 August 2009.
  3. ^ a b c . City University of New York. Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2009. In addition to teaching the history of literary theory, he teaches the work of Marcel Proust and the literature of memory and exile.
  4. ^ "André Aciman". gc.cuny.edu.
  5. ^ a b c Meet the author: Aciman says he's all his characters, Marin Independent Journal, 24 May 2008
  6. ^ a b c Kakutani, Michiko (27 December 1994). "Books of the Times: Alexandria, and in Just One Volume". The New York Times. p. 21. Retrieved 21 September 2009.
  7. ^ Rosenberg, Gabe. "Novelist and Visiting Prof. Andre Aciman Shares His Creative Process - Arts". The Wesleyan Argus. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  8. ^ "Andre Aciman profile". 18 October 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  9. ^ "Andre Aciman: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". Amazon. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  10. ^ "20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Winners and Finalists". 30 April 2007. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  11. ^ "Winners of Whiting Awards". The New York Times. 30 October 1995. p. C15. Retrieved 21 September 2009. Andre Aciman, whose first book, Out of Egypt (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995), chronicles his childhood in Alexandria, Egypt.
  12. ^ D'Erasmo, Stacey (25 February 2007). "Call Me by Your Name - By André Aciman - Books - Review". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  13. ^ a b Ingström, Pia (26 May 2019). "Mor var vild och öm, mormor ett helgon och farmor kall". Hufvudstadsbladet (in Swedish). pp. 38–39.
  14. ^ Epstein, Joseph."Funny, But I Do Look Jewish". 15 December 2003. Archived from the original on 18 December 2005. Retrieved 23 September 2009.
  15. ^ Baker, Zachary M. (2009). "Presidential Lectures: André Aciman". Stanford Presidential Lectures. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  16. ^ "Deaths: ACIMAN, HENRI N". The New York Times. 15 May 2008. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  17. ^ "REGINE ACIMAN: Obituary". The New York Times. 12 January 2013. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  18. ^ Aciman, André (10 March 2014). "Are You Listening?". The New Yorker.
  19. ^ "Aciman, Toibin among contributors to book on Sigmund Freud". The Independent. 10 March 2022.
  20. ^ Halutz, Avshalom (23 October 2019). "André Aciman on the Parallels Between Jews and Gays, and His 'Call Me by Your Name' Sequel". Haaretz.
  21. ^ "Biography of Andre Aciman". gradesaver. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  22. ^ "Revisiting André Aciman's Eccentric Family". The New York Times. 13 December 2019. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
  23. ^ "Exodus From Egypt", The Washington Post, 15 February 1995, pg. D02
  24. ^ Walters, Colin. "Visit to 'very small, very strange world'" The Washington Times, 19 March 1995, p. B6
  25. ^ "Henri Aciman Obituary - New York, NY | The New York Times". Legacy.com. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  26. ^ "'Call Me by Your Name' author: Don't be afraid of same-sex crushes". 20 November 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  27. ^ "'Call Me By Your Name' Author on the Film: 'They All Deserve Oscars'". 7 December 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  28. ^ "LinkedIn". Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  29. ^ "Leadership".
  30. ^ "KDMN Company Profile & Executives - Kadmon Holdings Inc". The Wall Street Journal.
  31. ^ "Stocks - Bloomberg". Bloomberg News.
  32. ^ "KADMON HOLDINGS, INC. : KDMN Stock Price | MarketScreener".
  33. ^ Liu, Max (2 November 2018). "André Aciman, interview: 'I couldn't imagine writing about people whose sexuality is anything other than fluid'". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  34. ^ "Chiamami col tuo nome". InchiostrOnline. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  35. ^ Meaney, Thomas (February–March 2007). "Naming Youths". Bookforum. Retrieved 21 September 2009. How strange that Aciman's first novel should run against the Proustian grain.
  36. ^ Ormsby, Eric (24 January 2007). "Nature Loves to Hide". The New York Sun. p. 13. pays its respects to Proust but is brilliantly original....This is a novel of seduction in which the final prize is to win back something small but precious from the coquettishness of memory.
  37. ^ D'Erasmo, Stacey (25 January 2007). "Suddenly One Summer". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 September 2009. This novel is hot. A coming-of-age story, a coming-out story, a Proustian meditation on time and desire, a love letter, an invocation and something of an epitaph, Call Me by Your Name is also an open question. It is an exceptionally beautiful book.
  38. ^ Bobrow, Emily (25 October 2019). "'Find Me' Review: Better Left Unspoken A much-anticipated sequel that dispenses with many of the ingredients that made the earlier book so moving". The Wall Street Journal.
  39. ^ Aciman, Andre (16 June 2004). "Sailing to Byzantium by Way of Ithaca". The New York Sun. p. 1. Proust fans filled the Celeste Bartos Forum at the New York Public Library on Wednesday for an evening titled 'The Proust Project: A Discussion With Latter-Day Disciples, Admirers, and Shameless Imitators.' The event celebrated the publication of a book called The Proust Project in which Andre Aciman, a professor at CUNY Graduate Center, asked a group of writers to reflect on In Search of Lost Time.
  40. ^ Aciman, André (19 January 2021). Homo Irrealis. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-36647-7.

Further reading

  • Aciman, André (8 June 2009). "The Exodus Obama Forgot to Mention". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 September 2009.

External links

 
Wikiquote has quotations related to André Aciman.
  • An Interview with Andre Aciman, bookslut.com
  • Andre Aciman on Writing, His Work and Inspirations on YouTube
  • "Novelist and Visiting Prof. Andre Aciman Shares His Creative Process". The Wesleyan Argus. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  • Profile of André Aciman profile, The Whiting Foundation website; accessed 8 March 2018.

January 17, 2023
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Andre Aciman ˈ ae s ɪ m e n 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 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 and Bard College 4 5 6 Andre AcimanAciman in 2017Born 1951 01 02 2 January 1951 age 72 Alexandria EgyptOccupationWriterprofessorNationalityItalianAmericanAlma materLehman College Harvard UniversityPeriod1995 presentGenreShort story novel essayNotable workCall Me by Your Name 2007 SpouseSusan WiviottChildren3 including AlexanderSignatureIn 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 in the Gay Fiction category of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award 10 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 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Out of Egypt 3 Personal life 4 Awards 5 Bibliography 5 1 Novels 5 2 Short fiction 5 3 Non fiction 5 4 Selected articles 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksEarly life and education EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Andre Aciman news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2018 Learn how and when to remove this template message Aciman was born in Alexandria Egypt the son of Regine and Henri N Aciman who owned a knitting factory 14 15 16 17 His mother was deaf 18 Aciman was raised in a French speaking home where family members spoke Italian Greek Ladino and Arabic 5 His parents were Sephardic Jews of Turkish and Italian origin from families that had settled in Alexandria in 1905 Turkish surname Aciman 6 As members of one of the Mutamassirun foreign communities his family members were unable to become Egyptian citizens As a child Aciman mistakenly believed that he was a French citizen 19 He attended British schools in Egypt 13 His family was spared from the 1956 57 exodus and expulsions from Egypt However increased tensions with Israel under President Gamal Abdel Nasser put Jews in a precarious position and his family left Egypt nine years later in 1965 20 After his father purchased Italian citizenship for the family Aciman moved with his mother and brother as refugees to Rome while his father moved to Paris They moved to New York City in 1968 5 He earned a B A in English and Comparative Literature from Lehman College in 1973 and an M A and PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 1988 21 Out of Egypt EditAciman s 1996 memoir Out of Egypt about Alexandria before the 1956 expulsions from Egypt was reviewed widely 22 23 24 In The New York Times Michiko Kakutani described the book as a remarkable memoir that leaves the reader with a mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world She compared his work with that of Lawrence Durrell and noted 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 Personal life EditAciman is married to Susan Wiviott They have three sons Alexander and twins Philip and Michael 25 26 27 His wife a Wisconsin alumna and Harvard Law graduate is the CEO of the Bridge Inc a New York City based NPO that offers rehabilitative services She is also a board director of Kadmon Holdings Inc and formerly worked as Chief Program Officer of Palladia and Deputy Executive Vice President of JBFCS 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Awards Edit1995 Whiting Award 2007 Lambda Literary AwardBibliography EditThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items May 2018 Luca Guadagnino and Aciman at a screening of Call Me by Your Name at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival Novels Edit Call Me by Your Name 2007 35 36 37 Eight White Nights 2010 Harvard Square 2013 Enigma Variations 2017 Find Me 2019 38 Short fiction Edit Cat s Cradle The New Yorker November 1997 Monsieur Kalashnikov The Paris Review 181 Summer 2007 Abingdon Square Granta 122 Betrayal January 2013 Non fiction Edit Out of Egypt memoir 1995 2 3 Letters of Transit Reflections on Exile Identity Language and Loss editor contributor 1999 False Papers Essays on Exile and Memory 2000 2 3 Entrez Signs of France with Steven Rothfeld 2001 The Proust Project editor 2004 2 39 The light of New York with Jean Michel Berts 2007 Alibis Essays on Elsewhere 2011 Homo Irrealis Essays 2021 40 Selected articles Edit Reflections of an Uncertain Jew The Threepenny Review 81 Spring 2000 The Exodus Obama Forgot to Mention Opinion The New York Times 8 June 2009 Are You Listening Conversations with my deaf mother Personal History The New Yorker 17 March 2014 W G Sebald and the Emigrants The New Yorker 25 August 2016 Andre Aciman Would Like to Demote Virginia Woolf From the Canon By the Book The New York Times 31 October 2019 References Edit Fear of Dying A Conversation with Erica Jong Graduate Center CUNY 10 November 2015 Archived from the original on 10 March 2021 Retrieved 26 March 2019 a b c d Andre Aciman City University of New York Archived from the original on 28 August 2008 Retrieved 18 August 2009 a b c Andre Aciman profile City University of New York Archived from the original on 14 June 2011 Retrieved 18 August 2009 In addition to teaching the history of literary theory he teaches the work of Marcel Proust and the literature of memory and exile Andre Aciman gc cuny edu a b c Meet the author Aciman says he s all his characters Marin Independent Journal 24 May 2008 a b c Kakutani Michiko 27 December 1994 Books of the Times Alexandria and in Just One Volume The New York Times p 21 Retrieved 21 September 2009 Rosenberg Gabe Novelist and Visiting Prof Andre Aciman Shares His Creative Process Arts The Wesleyan Argus Retrieved 4 December 2013 Andre Aciman profile 18 October 2013 Retrieved 4 December 2013 Andre Aciman Books Biography Blog Audiobooks Kindle Amazon Retrieved 4 December 2013 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Winners and Finalists 30 April 2007 Retrieved 1 January 2017 Winners of Whiting Awards The New York Times 30 October 1995 p C15 Retrieved 21 September 2009 Andre Aciman whose first book Out of Egypt Farrar Straus amp Giroux 1995 chronicles his childhood in Alexandria Egypt D Erasmo Stacey 25 February 2007 Call Me by Your Name By Andre Aciman Books Review The New York Times Retrieved 15 August 2016 a b Ingstrom Pia 26 May 2019 Mor var vild och om mormor ett helgon och farmor kall Hufvudstadsbladet in Swedish pp 38 39 Epstein Joseph Funny But I Do Look Jewish 15 December 2003 Archived from the original on 18 December 2005 Retrieved 23 September 2009 Baker Zachary M 2009 Presidential Lectures Andre Aciman Stanford Presidential Lectures Retrieved 5 September 2017 Deaths ACIMAN HENRI N The New York Times 15 May 2008 ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on 15 May 2008 Retrieved 5 September 2017 REGINE ACIMAN Obituary The New York Times 12 January 2013 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 5 September 2017 Aciman Andre 10 March 2014 Are You Listening The New Yorker Aciman Toibin among contributors to book on Sigmund Freud The Independent 10 March 2022 Halutz Avshalom 23 October 2019 Andre Aciman on the Parallels Between Jews and Gays and His Call Me by Your Name Sequel Haaretz Biography of Andre Aciman gradesaver Retrieved 7 January 2019 Revisiting Andre Aciman s Eccentric Family The New York Times 13 December 2019 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 21 September 2022 Exodus From Egypt The Washington Post 15 February 1995 pg D02 Walters Colin Visit to very small very strange world The Washington Times 19 March 1995 p B6 Henri Aciman Obituary New York NY The New York Times Legacy com Retrieved 24 November 2019 Call Me by Your Name author Don t be afraid of same sex crushes 20 November 2017 Retrieved 2 May 2018 Call Me By Your Name Author on the Film They All Deserve Oscars 7 December 2017 Retrieved 2 May 2018 LinkedIn Retrieved 24 November 2019 Leadership KDMN Company Profile amp Executives Kadmon Holdings Inc The Wall Street Journal Stocks Bloomberg Bloomberg News KADMON HOLDINGS INC KDMN Stock Price MarketScreener Liu Max 2 November 2018 Andre Aciman interview I couldn t imagine writing about people whose sexuality is anything other than fluid inews co uk Retrieved 4 May 2019 Chiamami col tuo nome InchiostrOnline Retrieved 4 May 2019 Meaney Thomas February March 2007 Naming Youths Bookforum Retrieved 21 September 2009 How strange that Aciman s first novel should run against the Proustian grain Ormsby Eric 24 January 2007 Nature Loves to Hide The New York Sun p 13 pays its respects to Proust but is brilliantly original This is a novel of seduction in which the final prize is to win back something small but precious from the coquettishness of memory D Erasmo Stacey 25 January 2007 Suddenly One Summer The New York Times Retrieved 21 September 2009 This novel is hot A coming of age story a coming out story a Proustian meditation on time and desire a love letter an invocation and something of an epitaph Call Me by Your Name is also an open question It is an exceptionally beautiful book Bobrow Emily 25 October 2019 Find Me Review Better Left Unspoken A much anticipated sequel that dispenses with many of the ingredients that made the earlier book so moving The Wall Street Journal Aciman Andre 16 June 2004 Sailing to Byzantium by Way of Ithaca The New York Sun p 1 Proust fans filled the Celeste Bartos Forum at the New York Public Library on Wednesday for an evening titled The Proust Project A Discussion With Latter Day Disciples Admirers and Shameless Imitators The event celebrated the publication of a book called The Proust Project in which Andre Aciman a professor at CUNY Graduate Center asked a group of writers to reflect on In Search of Lost Time Aciman Andre 19 January 2021 Homo Irrealis Faber amp Faber ISBN 978 0 571 36647 7 Further reading EditAciman Andre 8 June 2009 The Exodus Obama Forgot to Mention The New York Times Retrieved 21 September 2009 External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Andre Aciman An Interview with Andre Aciman bookslut com Andre Aciman on Writing His Work and Inspirations on YouTube Novelist and Visiting Prof Andre Aciman Shares His Creative Process The Wesleyan Argus Retrieved 5 September 2017 Profile of Andre Aciman profile The Whiting Foundation website accessed 8 March 2018 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Andre Aciman amp oldid 1113463087, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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