- Antonia Arslan
Antonia Arslan (born 1938) is an Italian writer and academic of
Armenian origins.Arslan was born in
Padua . After graduating inarchaeology she became a teacher of modern and contemporaryItalian literature at theUniversity 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 focussed on her Armenian heritage. She translated two volumes of
Daniel Varujan ’s poetry into Italian and edited works on theArmenian genocide and on the experiences of Armenian refugees in Italy.In 2004 her first novel "La masseria delle allodole" ("
Skylark Farm ") was published byRizzoli . Drawing on the history of her own recent ancestors it tells of the attempts of the members of an Armenian family caught up in the massacres to escape to Italy and join a relation who has been living there for forty years. [ [http://copac.ac.uk/wzgw?id=080715bc756be92cb1ae9018d3711c18fd84bd&f=u&rsn=1&rn=39 Plot summary] at Copac.] It was selected as a finalist for the 2004Premio Campiello award and was the winner of that year’sPremio Stresa di Narrativa ; in 2005 it was awarded thePremio P.E.N. [" [http://www.penclubitalia.org/passate%20edizioni%20premio%20pen.htm Passate edizioni Premio PEN] ".] and thePremio Manzoni " [http://www.comune.bolzano.it/events_detail.jsp?IDAREA=21&ID_EVENT=2218>EMPLATE=events_detail.jsp Antonia Arslan, autrice del libro "La masseria delle allodole", in Biblioteca civica] ", Città di Bolzano.] . The book has been translated into numerous languages—an English translation byGeoffrey Brock was published as "Skylark Farm" in 2008—and inspired theTaviani brothers ’ 2007 film "La Masseria Delle Allodole ".References
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