Lesson 6, part 9: free writing/ Italo Calvino
IDENTITY CARD: ITALO CALVINO
Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno];[1] 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) 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).
Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Italo Calvino
Born Italo Giovanni Calvino Mameli
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 works
The Baron in the Trees
Invisible Cities
If on a winter's night a traveler
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno];[1] 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) 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).
Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Italo Calvino
Born Italo Giovanni Calvino Mameli
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 works
The Baron in the Trees
Invisible Cities
If on a winter's night a traveler
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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