Italo Calvino
Writer
- Born
- October 15, 1923
- Died
- September 19, 1985 (age 61)
- From
- Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba
Italo Calvino (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…
