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Italo Calvino (/ k æ l ˈ v iː n oʊ /, also US: / k ɑː l ˈ-/, Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If ...
Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist whose whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the most important Italian fiction writers in the 20th century. Calvino left Cuba for Italy in his youth. He joined the Italian Resistance during World War II and after.
He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
Feb 27, 2023 · Italo Calvino was, word for word, the most charming writer to put pen to paper in the twentieth century. He was born a hundred years ago in Cuba, the eldest son of a wandering Italian botanist...
Upon hearing of Italo Calvino’s death in September of 1985, John Updike commented, “Calvino was a genial as well as brilliant writer. He took fiction into new places where it had never been before, and back into the fabulous and ancient sources of narrative.”
Oct 10, 2023 · Second, he loved to play games in his books, building stories within stories, constructing a novel from a Tarot pack, or winking to the reader about what it’s like to read an Italo Calvino book. With 24 titles to choose from, the only question is: where to begin?
Il 15 ottobre 2023 ricorrono i 100 anni dalla nascita di Italo Calvino, uno degli scrittori più poliedrici del Novecento italiano. Tanti sono gli eventi e le mostre che, nel corso del 2023, stanno celebrando l'autore e la sua incredibile produzione letteraria.
Spanning some forty years, Italo Calvino’s literary production includes highly diverse novels, adaptations, translations, edited texts, critical essays, newspaper articles, and lectures....
Italo Calvino has 509 books on Goodreads with 1062565 ratings. Italo Calvino’s most popular book is If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.
Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45.
