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Way to Smyrna by Antonia Arslan presented in Rome
28.03.2009 11:55 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Way to Smyrna book by Antonia Arslan was presented
in Levonian lyceum in Rome on March 26.

The new by the author of Skyark Farm is again dedicated to the
Armenian Genocide.

Antonia Arslan (born 1938) is an Italian writer and academic of
Armenian origins.

After graduating in archaeology she became a teacher of modern and
contemporary Italian literature at the University of Padua and
published, inter alia, on Italian popular women’s fiction and Italian
women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Her later writings have focused on her Armenian heritage. She
translated two volumes of Daniel Varujan’s poetry into Italian and
edited works on the Armenian Genocide and on the experiences of
Armenian refugees in Italy.

In 2004 her first novel La masseria delle allodole (Skylark Farm) was
published.