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André Aciman (/ ˈ æ s ɪ m ə 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 the City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust.
Call Me by Your Name is a 2007 coming-of-age novel written by Italian-American writer André Aciman.Set in the 1980s, the novel centers on the sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between student Elio Perlman and visiting American scholar Oliver, chronicling their relationship and the 20 years that follow.
The foreign resident population in Egypt numbered around 200,000 by the end of World War 1. [1] This movement of foreign nationals leaving Egypt was precipitated by various factors such as political instability, the Suez Crisis, the abolition of the capitulations system, and the rise of Egyptian nationalism under Gamal Abdel Nasser.
The Guardian wrote "The absence of a conventional sense of story or structure reflects the musical form that Aciman is invoking, making this a clever experiment but also a frustrating one." [2] The New York Times wrote "if you think Aciman has explored this territory before — true, but he’s up to something bolder this time. This book reads ...
A. Ahmed Rashad Abdel-khalik; Omar Abdel-Rahman; Alaa Abdelnaby; Mohamed Abdou; Yaser Abu-Mostafa; Abubakr Ali; André Aciman; Ramy Adeeb; Frank Agrama; Ahmed Ahmed
On December 6, 2017, when asked about a proposed sequel to the film adaptation of Call Me by Your Name, Aciman replied that "the problem with a sequel is that you need plot." [3] On December 3, 2018, Aciman announced on his Twitter account that he was writing a sequel to Call Me by Your Name. [4]
Aciman is also the author of a number of nonfiction books, including the 1996 memoir Out of Egypt, the 2021 essay collection Homo Irrealis and the 2024 memoir Roman Year, about his childhood in ...
André Aciman (born 1951, Egypt) Joseph Addison (1672–1719, England) Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969, Germany) Sheetal Agashe (born 1977, India) José de Alencar (1829–1877, Brazil) Kingsley Amis (1922–1995, United Kingdom) Martin Amis (1949–2023, United Kingdom) Oswald de Andrade (1890–1954, Brazil) Jacob M. Appel (born 1973, United ...