Abril Bookstore, the Center for Armenian Remembrance and Friends of UCLA Armenian Language and Culture Studies present an evening of Antonia Arslan, author of the novel “Skylark Farm,” which has won 22 awards and was made into the 2007 film, “The Lark Farm.”

The free event begins at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 18, at Glendale Central Library, Glendale New-Press reported.

Antonia Arslan (born 1938) is an Italian writer and academic of Armenian origin. Arslan was born in Padua. After graduating in archaeology she became a professor of modern and contemporary Italian literature at the University of Padua and published copious groundbreaking studies, inter alia, on Italian popular women’s fiction and Italian women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Her first novel, “Skylark Farm,” is based on the experiences of her Armenian grandfather’s family during the Armenian Genocide.