Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
Born	Italo Giovanni Calvino Mameli; 15 October 1923; Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba
Died	19 September 1985 (aged 61); Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Resting place	Garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy
Occupation	Writer, journalist
Nationality	Italian
Literary movement	Oulipo, neorealism, Postmodernism
Notable works	The Baron in the Trees; Invisible Cities; If on a winter's night a traveler; Six Memos for the Next Millennium;
Spouse	Esther Judith Singer
Children	Giovanna

Italo Calvino (/kælˈviːnoʊ/, also US: /kɑːlˈ-/, Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 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 Italian writer at the time of his death. He is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany.

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