Italo Calvino
Italian journalist and writer of short stories
Died when: 61 years 339 days (743 months)Star Sign: Libra
Italo Calvino (/kæl'vi?no?/, also US: /k??l'-/, Italian: ['i?talo kal'vi?no]; 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, he was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death.
Italo Calvino is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia, in Tuscany.
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