Antonia Arslan

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Antonia Arslan (* 1938 in Padua ) is an Italian Italianist and writer.

Life

Antonia Arslan is the daughter of the ear, nose and throat doctor Michele Arslan (1904–1988). She is a professor of modern and contemporary Italian literature at the University of Padua .

Inspired by the translation of poems by the Armenian poet Daniel Waruschan , Antonia Arslan traces her own Armenian roots and family history. With the novel La masseria delle allodole , she returns to the world of her grandfather Yerwant Arslan (1865–1948), who came to Italy as a teenager and became a well-known ear, nose and throat doctor there.

For her work she received the Italian PEN Club Prize, the Premio Stresa and the Manzoni Prize.

Fonts

  • Lady, droga e galline. Il romanzo popolare italiano fra Ottocento e Novecento . Cleup, 1977.
  • Lady, galline e regine. La scrittura femminile italiana fra '800 e' 900 . Guerini e Associati, 1999.
  • La masseria delle allodole . Rizzoli , 2004 (German Das Haus der Lerchen )
  • La strada di Smirne . Rizzoli, 2009.
  • Il cortile dei girasoli parlanti , Piemme, 2011. ISBN 9788856619737
  • Il libro di Mush , Skira narrativa, 2012. ISBN 9788857211510
  • Il calendario dell'avvento , Piemme, 2013. ISBN 9788856631098
  • Il rumore delle perle di legno , Rizzoli, 2015. ISBN 9788858679050

literature

  • Monica Biasiolo: Antonia Arslan e il Paese perduto: ritrovare la propria identità attraverso la memoria . In: Esperienze letterarie. Rivista trimestrale di critica e di cultura , 4 / XXXV (October – December 2010), pp. 97–110.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonia Arslan (Italian). Retrieved May 28, 2017
  2. The novel La masseria delle allodole served the two directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in the film Das Haus der Lerchen 2007 as a template.