André Aciman (; born 2 January 1951) is an American writer. Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, he is currently distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust. Aciman previously taught creative writing at New York University and French literature at Princeton and Bard College.
In 2009, he was Visiting Distinguished Writer at Wesleyan University.
He is the author of several novels, including Call Me by Your Name (winner, in the Gay Fiction category, of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award and made into a film) and a 1995 memoir, Out of Egypt, which won a Whiting Award. Although best known for Call Me by Your Name, Aciman stated in an interview in 2019 his best book to be the novel Eight White Nights.
Bogen bag succesfilmen Call Me by Your Name. Romantisk kærlighedshistorie sat i Norditalien i 1983. Den 17-årige Elio tilbringer sommeren med sin familie i deres hus i Norditalien og forelsker sig hovedkulds i familiens sommergæst, den lidt ældre studerende Oliver. Elio og Oliver udvikler ganske langsomt et forhold til hinanden, og det bliver en sommer i det smukke italienske landskab, de aldrig glemmer – og som kommer til at ændre deres liv for altid.
Pressen skrev:
»Den smukkeste og mest nuancerede skildring af den bratte, uventede forelskelse.«
****** – Jyllands Posten
»En absolut anbefalelsesværdig bog...«
– Weekendavisen
»Superb ... The beauty of Aciman's writing and the purity of his passions should place this extraordinary first novel within the canon of great romantic love stories for everyone.«? The Washington Post Book World
»This novel is hot ... a love letter, an invocation, and something of an epitaph ... An exceptionally beautiful book.«? The New York Times Book Review
»The novel is richly, sensuously detailed ... luminous ... Aciman deftly charts a burgeoning relationship that both parties want and fear.«? The Boston Globe
»…dyb og sanselig skildring af forelskelsens og begærets berusende skønhed.«
– Litteratursiden
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