This Week's Distinguished Writer: André Aciman

Visiting Creative Writing Professor André Aciman will give a public reading this Wednesday as part of Wesleyan's Distinguished Writers Series.

André Aciman is the author of the novel Call Me By Your Name and the nonfiction works Out of Egypt: A Memoir and False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory. He is co-author and editor of The Proust Project and Letters of Transit. He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and The New York Public Library’s Center for Scholars and Writers. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books, and his pieces appear in several annual collections of the Best American Essays.

What: André Aciman Distinguished Writers Lecture
When: Wednesday, March 25th at 8 PM
Where: Russell House (380 High Street)

Andre Aciman at Russell House

Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, Distinguished Writers/New Voices brings you:

André Aciman
Monday, February 25, 8:00 PM
The Russell House

Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Andre Aciman is the author of Out of Egypt: A Memoir, False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory, the recent novel Call Me By Your Name, and the co-author and editor of The Proust Project and Letters of Transit. Aciman is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a fellowship from The New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books. Aciman's pieces appear in several annual collections of The Best American Essays. He is a leading scholar of Marcel Proust, and currently teaches comparative literature at the City University of New York.

Free of charge and open to the public.