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"I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek."

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About Andre Aciman

Andre Aciman is an Egyptian-born Italian-American novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is best known for the novel Call Me by Your Name and for the memoir Out of Egypt. He teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center as a distinguished professor of comparative literature.

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