André Aciman was born in 1951 in Alexandria, into a Sephardic Jewish family of Turkish origin. Educated at Harvard University, he has been a professor of Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at Bard College and at Princeton and New York universities. Regarding his creative work, he is well known as an essayist and scholar of Marcel Proust’s work. In 1996, Lejos de Egipto, a memoir about his childhood and adolescence, was published and earned the prestigious Whiting Award. He later published the essay collection False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory, the novel Ocho noches blancas, and contributed as coauthor and editor to the works Letters of Transit and The Proust Project. Alfaguara has published Variaciones Enigma (2019); Llámame por tu nombre (2008), his first novel, successfully adapted into a film by Luca Guadagnino and winner of the Lambda Literary Award and Best Book of the Year honors from Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post; and Encuéntrame (2020), its long-awaited sequel. Homo irrealis is his latest book.