Andre Aciman

1995 Winner in
Nonfiction

André Aciman is the author of the novels Harvard Square (2013), Eight White Nights (2010), and Call Me by Your Name (2007), the memoir Out of Egypt (1995), and two books of essays. He is also the editor of The Proust Project (2004). He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he directs the Writers’ Institute. Aciman lives with his wife and family in New York City.

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Reviews & Praise

“So candid, so penetrating and so beautifully written that it can make you feel cut open, emotionally exposed.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal [on Harvard Square]

"Aciman . . . has an ability to make the finest, the tiniest and most convincing distinctions between moods, responses, and registers. Everything is watched as it shifts and glitters and then hesitates and maybe is shadowed over . . . This really is fiction at its most supremely interesting; every clause and subclause shimmers with a densely observed and carefully rendered invention that seems oddly and delightfully precise and convincing . . . There are many layers and levels in this story." —Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books [on Call Me by Your Name]

“Psychologically charged, deeply Dostoyevskian . . . original to the core. Then again, Aciman has never failed to be original. Nor is he a stranger to questions of love.” —Marie Arana, The Washington Post [on Eight White Nights]

Selected Works

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