André Aciman

André Aciman’s body of work spans memoir, essay, and fiction: from Out of Egypt, his Whiting Award-winning account of his family’s expulsion from Alexandria to his essay collections False Papers and Alibis, to his seven novels, including Call Me by Your Name, Eight White Nights, Harvard Square, and Enigma Variations. His most recent book is Room on the Sea: Three Novellas. In 2017, Call Me by Your Name was adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by Luca Guadagnino. Call Me by Your Name also won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, and Aciman returned to its characters more than a decade later in Find Me, a New York Times bestseller. A leading scholar of Marcel Proust, he edited The Proust Project and Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss, and his essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the Paris Review, and several volumes of The Best American Essays. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he teaches the works of Marcel Proust and serves as founder and director of the Writers’ Institute.