Friday, July 1, 2011

ITALO CALVINO

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]

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