A young boy and a summer guest at his parents’ mansion have a romance with each other on Italian Riviera. “Call Me by Your Name” is the first novel and was released in the year 2007. This is what formed his own sensibilities. It was not until he read “The Scarlatti Inheritance” by Robert Ludlum that he realized there was no way to write in the spirit of Classicism. He read a lot, but only classic novels and would not read anything that he felt was contemporary.

At first, he wrote poetry it was not until he was around fifteen that he wrote creative prose of any kind. He started writing in the sixth grade, which he feels is a bit of a late bloomer. In the year 2007, “Call Me by Your Name” was released, and is his debut novel. He was surprised in their positive response to the book. He felt the person was being nice when they said they would like it. It came about because he wrote book reviews and asked if they would want anything about his life in Egypt. His first book came out in the year 1995, called “Out of Egypt”, and is his memoir. From Harvard he got an AM and PhD in Comparative Literature. He has a BA in English and Comparative Literature that he got from Lehman College in the year 1973. His 1995 memoir, titled “Out of Egypt” won a Whiting Award. “Call Me by Your Name” won a Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Fiction category. He has also taught creative writing (at New York University) and French literature (at Princeton). He is a distinguished professor at City University of New York’s Graduate Center where he teaches literary theory history and Marcel Proust’s works. By the year 1968, they were living in New York City. He and his family were Italian citizens, which started after they were forced out of Egypt due to more and more antisemitism on the part of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, in the year 1965. Growing up, he thought he was a French citizen, which was a mistake on his part. Because he and his family were Jewish, they could not become citizens of Egypt, and attended British schools in Egypt.

Aciman grew up in a home that spoke French, and other family members spoke languages such as Arabic, Italian, Latino, and Greek. Aciman his mother was deaf and his father owned a knitting factory. Andre Aciman was born on Januand was raised and born in Alexandria, Egypt.

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