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André Aciman

1951 - Today

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André Aciman (; born 2 January 1951) is an Italian-American writer. Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, he is currently a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the 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 University 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 of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Fiction category and made into a film) and a 1995 memoir, Out of Egypt, which won a Whiting Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Aciman has received more than 1,240,244 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. André Aciman is the 3,215th most popular writer (down from 2,461st in 2019), the 416th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 338th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Egyptian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

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  • 52.31

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Out of Egypt
Genealogy, Jews, Biography
1994
Eight white nights
2010
False papers
Jews, Travel, Egyptian Jews
2000
Enigma variations
Self-realization, Desire (Philosophy), Fiction
"A passionate portrait of love's contradictory power, in five illuminating stories André Aciman, who has been called "the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century" (New York magazine), has written a novel that chronicles the life of Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout his life as they were in adolescence. Whether in southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents' cabinetmaker; or on a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he'll meet again and again over the years is counterpointed by anonymous encounters with other men; or on a tennis court in Central Park; or on a sidewalk in early spring in New York, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire -- not for just one person's body but, inevitably, for someone else's as well. In charting the most inscrutable corners of desire, Aciman proves to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche, soul, and libido, and a master stylist of contemporary literature. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid in Enigma Variations, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of the very ones who may want only to offer what we crave from them. Behind every step the hero takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love casts its luminous halo. We may not know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and others. But sooner or later we discover who we've always known we were."--
2017
The Best American Essays 1999
1999
Entrez
2001

Page views of André Acimen by language

Over the past year André Aciman has had the most page views in the with 94,293 views, followed by Spanish (13,889), and Italian (13,381). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (94.65%), Hungarian (39.22%), and Indonesian (27.01%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, André Aciman ranks 3,215 out of 7,302. Before him are Joan Brossa, Lady Caroline Lamb, Nodira, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, and Ephraim Chambers. After him are Jerzy Giedroyc, Victoria Benedictsson, Pavlo Tychyna, Hubert Selby Jr., Roberto Calasso, and Hilary Mantel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, André Aciman ranks 196. Before him are Gérard Jugnot, Ana Belén, William Katt, Michel Barnier, Moriteru Ueshiba, and Marc Surer. After him are Shigeru Umebayashi, David Kipiani, Massimo Ranieri, Gediminas Kirkilas, Sulejman Tihić, and Kenny Roberts.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, André Aciman ranks 416 out of 642. Before him are Osorkon IV (-800), Sayf al-Din Khushqadam (1413), Al-Ashraf Kujuk (1334), C. S. Forester (1899), Haim Saban (1944), and Safiya Zaghloul (1876). After him are Moustafa Madbouly (1966), Richard Anthony (1938), Al-Salih Hajji (1372), Nabil Elaraby (1935), Ibrahim Moustafa (1904), and Sayf ad-Din Inal (1380).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, André Aciman ranks 41. Before him are Farag Foda (1946), Salama Moussa (1887), Georges Schehadé (1905), Abbās al-Aqqād (1889), Eutychius of Alexandria (877), and C. S. Forester (1899). After him are Malak Hifni Nasif (1886), Doria Shafik (1908), Bat Ye'or (1933), Hafez Ibrahim (1872), Yusuf Idris (1927), and Alaa Al Aswany (1957).

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