Italo Calvino - Wikipedia
Italo Calvino (/ k æ l ˈ v iː n oʊ /, [1] [2] also US: / k ɑː l ˈ-/, [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 ...
Italo Calvino | Italian Novelist, Short Story Writer | Britannica
Oct 11, 2024 · Italo Calvino (born October 15, 1923, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba—died September 19, 1985, Siena, Italy) was an Italian journalist, short-story writer, and novelist whose whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the …
Italo Calvino, Reconsidered - The New Yorker
Feb 27, 2023 · Italo Calvino was, word for word, the most charming writer to put pen to paper in the twentieth century. He was born a hundred years ago in Cuba, the eldest son of a wandering Italian botanist...
Italo Calvino, the writer who shrank the size of hell
Oct 14, 2023 · With lightness, speed, accuracy and multiplicity, Calvino established all the values for the new millennium in a series of lectures that he was supposed to give at Harvard. However, a few weeks...
Italo Calvino (Author of If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler)
He was a 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).
Where to Start with Italo Calvino - The New York Public Library
Oct 11, 2023 · Italo Calvino, who died in 1985, was one of Italy's greatest writers and, as one the country's most translated authors, found worldwide fame for his imaginative fiction inspired by folk tales and oral tradition.
Italo Calvino - Encyclopedia.com
May 18, 2018 · One of modern Italy's most important men of letters, Italo Calvino (1923-1985), blended fantasy, fable, and comedy in an effort to illuminate modern life, and in the process redefined the literary forms. Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923.
The 10 Best Italo Calvino Books - Publishers Weekly
Jul 26, 2013 · The just-released Italo Calvino: Letters, covering over 40 years of the acclaimed writer's life, were selected by MIchael Wood, professor of English and comparative literature at Princeton. Wood...
Jhumpa Lahiri: Why Is Italo Calvino So Beloved Outside Italy?
May 19, 2022 · Calvino was a master at playing with linguistic register, alternating between high and low, humor and seriousness, philosophy and fantasy, shifting from one literary genre to another. His objective-subjective gaze took in the world along with the …
The Art of Fiction No. 130 - The Paris Review
Upon hearing of Italo Calvino’s death in September of 1985, John Updike commented, “Calvino was a genial as well as brilliant writer. He took fiction into new places where it had never been before, and back into the fabulous and ancient sources of narrative.”.