Way to Smyrna by Antonia Arslan presented in Rome

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.