Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino
BornItalo Giovanni Calvino Mameli
(1923-10-15)15 October 1923
Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba
Died19 September 1985(1985-09-19) (aged 61)
Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Resting placeGarden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy
OccupationWriter, journalist
NationalityItalian
Literary movementOulipo, neorealism, Postmodernism
Notable works
SpouseEsther Judith Singer
ChildrenGiovanna

Italo Calvino (/kælˈvn/,[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.

  1. ^ "Calvino". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Archived from the original on 7 March 2023. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Calvino, Italo". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Calvino". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Mi chiamo Italo Calvino" on YouTube. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012.
  5. ^ McLaughlin, Italo Calvino, xii.