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Italo Calvino | |
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| Born | Italo Giovanni Calvino Mameli 15 October 1923 Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba |
| Died | 19 September 1985 (aged 61) Siena, Tuscany, Italy |
| Resting place | Garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Literary movement | Oulipo, neorealism, Postmodernism |
| Notable works | |
| Spouse | Esther Judith Singer |
| Children | Giovanna |
Italo Calvino (/kælˈviːnoʊ/,[1][2] also US: /kɑːlˈ-/,[3] Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno];[4] 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.[5] He is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany.
- ^ "Calvino". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ "Calvino, Italo". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022.
- ^ "Calvino". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ "Mi chiamo Italo Calvino" on YouTube. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ McLaughlin, Italo Calvino, xii.
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