Italo Calvino
1923
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1985
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Italy, Kingdom of Italy
languages spoken, written or signed: Italian
educated at: University of Turin, University of Florence
occupation: writer, journalist, essayist, novelist, screenwriter
award received: Commander of the Legion of Honour, Viareggio Prize, Feltrinelli Prize, Austrian State Prize for European Literature, Ditmar Award
influenced by: Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Nabokov, Ludovico Ariosto
official website: www.italocalvino.org
Italo Calvino (, also US: , 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 on a winter's night a traveler (1979). Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death. He is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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