After winning the Il Campiello Secondo Noi by a spectacular margin - the book received nearly 50% of all votes, outstripping the book in second place by 26 votes - Antonia Arslan's La masseria delle allodole was expected to win the Premio Super-Campiello easily.

[3] After a stunning series of unexplained events, it scandalously came in second place for that award, possibly due to political calculations, losing for two votes.

[1] The book has been translated into numerous languages, including a translation into English by Geoffrey Brock as Skylark Farm, published by Knopf in 2007, and was selected as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award/ It inspired the Taviani brothers’ 2007 film La Masseria Delle Allodole (The Lark Farm in English).

Her second novel, La Strada di Smirne, was published in 2009 by Rizzoli, and it appeared in Armenian as Զմյուռնիայի ճանապարհ in 2012.

The latter book is an account of the Msho Charantir, the largest surviving Armenian manuscript.