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“The word love is terribly heavy-handed!” says André Aciman

Hindustan Times | By
Mar 09, 2019 11:49 PM IST

Author of Call Me By Your Name explains why he hates the word love and why he prefers to create someone who doesn’t know whether he loves or not!

André Aciman’s been tagged as “the most exciting new fiction writer of the 21st century” by the New York Magazine. This accolade hides the fact that before he wrote the novel he’s known for, Call Me By Your Name, Aciman was already the award-winning author of Out of Egypt: A Memoir and The Proust Project.

André Aciman’s seminal 2007 debut novel, Call Me By Your Name, became the toast of the town with its movie adaptation in 2017(Getty Images)
André Aciman’s seminal 2007 debut novel, Call Me By Your Name, became the toast of the town with its movie adaptation in 2017(Getty Images)
Call Me by Your Name is hailed as a queer love story that has effortlessly established itself as a universal love story
Call Me by Your Name is hailed as a queer love story that has effortlessly established itself as a universal love story
Before making his debut as a novelist, Aciman was already an award-winning author with non-fiction works like Out of Egypt (1995) and The Proust Project (2001) to his credit
Before making his debut as a novelist, Aciman was already an award-winning author with non-fiction works like Out of Egypt (1995) and The Proust Project (2001) to his credit
Call Me By Your Name, directed by Luca Guadagnino, won the Best Adapted Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards
Call Me By Your Name, directed by Luca Guadagnino, won the Best Adapted Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards
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