20th Lambda Literature Award Gay Novels
Film [CALL ME BY YOUR NAME] Original work Novel

Fighting Award winner Andre Achinger is a sensual language that delicately depicts the love between the 17-year-old Eloy and the twenty-four-year-old Oliver. In 2007, he was awarded the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Novels at the time of publishing abroad. Ten years later, he was re-born as the movie "CALL ME BY YOUR NAME" and was once again admired by the Sundance Film Festival.

Ellio, the seventeen-year-old who plays the piano and lives the book, greets the summer in a cottage on the Italian coast. Parents invite young scholars who have to tackle manuscripts before publishing books, and that summer guest is twenty-four American philosopher professor Oliver. Elio falls in love with Oliver, who fascinates everybody who meets with his free and mysterious charm at first sight. Oliver avoids Elio every time he approaches, saying, "Later!" But eventually, the two share an unstoppable love. A gesture of desire to be united with the two conscious worlds of Haydn, Liszt, Bach and Heraclitus, Paul Celan, Percy Shelly, and Leopardi, completes a refined and dignified romance.

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet, and produced by the Academy Award-Winning Producer of A Room with

Andre Aciman's Call Me and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verges toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great stories of our time.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times (by Michael Upchurch), and New York Magazine

By: Andrew Achiman

Andre Aciman wasborn on January 2, 1951 in Egypt. He studied composition at New York University and taught French literature at Princeton University. He now works as a writer and teaches comparative literature at New York City University graduate school and lives with his family in Manhattan.
He won the Whiting Award for Nonfiction in his memoir "Out of Egypt" in 1995. He was selected as the winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997 and won the Lambda Literature Award in 2007 for "Call Me by Your Name" (Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Fiction).
His books include "Out of Egypt," "False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory," "The Proust Project," "Call Me by Your Name," "Eight White Nights," "Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere," "Harvard Square, have.