André Aciman (1951, Alexandria, Egypt). A graduate of Harvard University, he has taught Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at Bard College and at the universities of Princeton and New York. In terms of his creative work, he is well known as an essayist and scholar of the work of Marcel Proust. His book Lejos de Egipto, a memoir of his childhood and teenage years, was published in 1996 and won the prestigious Whiting Award. He subsequently published the collection of essays False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory, the novel Ocho noches blancas, and contributed as co-author and editor to the works Letters of Transit and The Proust Project. Alfaguara has published Variaciones Enigma (2019); Llámame por tu nombre (2008), a novel that was made into a highly successful film by Luca Guadagnino and won the Lambda Literary Award as well as being named Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post; and Encuéntrame (2020), its eagerly awaited sequel.