Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino, on the cover of Lezioni americane: Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio
Born	15 October 1923 Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba
Died	19 September 1985 (aged 61) Siena, Italy
Occupation	Journalist, short story writer, novelist, essayist
Nationality	Italian
Literary movement	Neorealism, Postmodernism
Notable work(s)	The Baron in the Trees Invisible Cities If on a winter's night a traveler Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) (Italian pronunciation: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]) was an Italian 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).
Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.^[1]