André Aciman He was born in 1951 in Alexandria to a Sephardic Jewish family of Turkish origin. Educated at Harvard University, he has taught 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 the work of Marcel Proust. In 1996, his book "The Book of Marcel Proust" was published. Far from Egypt, a memoir about his childhood and adolescence that won the prestigious Whiting Award. He later published the collection of essays False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory, the novel Eight White Nights and participated as co-author and editor in the works Letters of Transit and The Proust Project. Alfaguara has published Enigma Variations (2019); Call me by your name (2008), his first novel, adapted to film with great success by Luca Guadagnino and which won the Lambda Literary Award and the distinction as best book of the year by Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post; and Find me (2020), its long-awaited sequel. Homo irrealis is his latest book.