Antonia Arslan, the author of The Road to Smyrna, will speak about her book on September 27, 2012 at the Glendale Central Library Auditorium, Asbarez reports.
The lecture is in English and Armenian. Gohar Sahakyan will be translating the lecture and the following Q&A session for Armenian speakers in the audience.
Antonia Arslan is an Italian author and academic of Armenian origin. She was born in Padova, Italy. In 2004 she stunned the literary world with her first novel La Masseria delle Allodole, which was translated as The Skylark Farm into twenty languages. She is the winner of over twenty literary awards, including the Passate Edizioni Premio (PEN) award, the Premio Manzoni, and the Premio Stresa di Narrativa awards. She has since published La Strada di Smirne (2007), Il cortile dei Girasoli Parlanti (2011), and a third Armenian novel, Il libro di Mush (The Book of Mush, 2012).
