Role: Author

Antonia Arslan, who lives in Padua, has a degree in archaeology and was professor of modern and contemporary Italian literature at the University of Padua. This is her first novel.

ANTRANIG CHALABIAN was born in Kessab, Syria, in 1922. After graduating from the local Armenian Evangelical School, he studied at Aleppo College (an American junior college) and graduated in 1944. He taught in his former school in Kessab for one year. Then he returned to Aleppo College where he taught English and arithmetic to the middle school classes from 1944 to 1949.\