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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 ...
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...
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).
Italo Calvino. Italo Calvino ( Santiago de Las Vegas de La Habana, 15 ottobre 1923 – Siena, 19 settembre 1985) è stato uno scrittore e paroliere italiano . Intellettuale di grande impegno politico, civile e culturale, è stato uno dei narratori italiani più importanti del secondo Novecento.
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 14, 2019 · Italian magical realism author Italo Calvino was born on October 15, 1923. Celebrate his birthday with 9 of his incredible books, like Invisible Cities. Meet the man who helped define magical realism.
Jan 6, 2020 · Discover Italo Calvino's great experimental novels. And learn how Calvino combined folklore, realism, and self-reflexive writing to become one of the most original authors of the post-modern era.
Oct 10, 2023 · The best books to begin with, from one of literature’s most compelling and idiosyncratic minds. “I always feel the need to alternate one type of writing with another, completely different,” said Italo Calvino, “to begin writing again as if I had never written anything before.”.
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.
