Italo Calvino Writer

Italo Calvino (/kælˈviːnoʊ/; Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 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).Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Personal facts

Birth date	October 15, 1923
Birth name	Italo Giovanni Calvino Mameli
Birth place	Santiago de las Vegas
Date of death	September 19, 1985
Place of death	Siena

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influenced	Salman Rushdie Orhan Pamuk Gore Vidal Umberto Eco Ismail Kadare Amanda Filipacchi Giulio Angioni W. G. Sebald Aimee Bender
influenced by	Voltaire Edgar Allan Poe Ernest Hemingway Franz Kafka Jorge Luis Borges Ludovico Ariosto Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel Beckett Galileo Galilei Georges Perec Raymond Queneau Vladimir Nabokov Ambrose Bierce Cesare Pavese
movement	Postmodernism Neorealism (art)
notable work	If on a winter's night a traveler Invisible Cities The Baron in the Trees Six Memos for the Next Millennium