André Aciman – American novelist of Italian-Egyptian origin, author of Call Me by Your Name and Out of Egypt. Born in cosmopolitan Alexandria, he grew up surrounded by multiple languages, shaping his lyrical style. Now a professor in New York, Aciman’s works are celebrated for their intimacy, nostalgia, and deep reflections on memory and desire.
📚 His memoir Out of Egypt was hailed as an “epic of a vanished home.” 🌍 Born into a Jewish family in 1950s Alexandria. 🗣️ Raised among French, Italian, Arabic and English. 🎬 Call Me by Your Name became a cultural milestone after its film adaptation. 🕰️ He writes “to trap time before it slips away.” 🎓 Teaches at CUNY and is a Proust scholar. 💡 Known for stretching a fleeting moment into dozens of pages. 📖 Once dreamt of becoming a musician. 🌱 His prose often circles memory’s fragility and exile’s ache. 😂 Quipped that “writers are collectors of vanished sensations.” 😅 Jokes his characters “grieve more beautifully than he ever could.”