Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
Author of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
About the Author
Italo Calvino 1923-1984 Novelist and short story writer Italo Calvino was born in Cuba on October 15, 1923, and grew up in Italy, graduating from the University of Turin in 1947. He is remembered for his distinctive style of fables. Much of his first work was political, including Il Sentiero dei show more Nidi di Ragno (The Path of the Nest Spiders, 1947), considered one of the main novels of neorealism. In the 1950s, Calvino began to explore fantasy and myth as extensions of realism. Il Visconte Dimezzato (The Cloven Knight, 1952), concerns a knight split in two in combat who continues to live on as two separates, one good and one bad, deprived of the link which made them a moral whole. In Il Barone Rampante (Baron in the Trees, 1957), a boy takes to the trees to avoid eating snail soup and lives an entire, fulfilled life without ever coming back down. Calvino was awarded an honorary degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1984 and died in 1985, following a cerebral hemorrhage. At the time of his death, he was the most translated contemporary Italian writer and a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Italo Calvino
Orlando furioso di Ludovico Ariosto raccontato da Italo Calvino : con una scelta del poema (1995) 248 copies
A Sign In Space 6 copies
Vittorini 5 copies
The Spiral 4 copies
Fábulas e Contos - Volume I 4 copies
La vera storia 3 copies
All at One Point {short story} 3 copies
Memorias y vida dificiles 3 copies
By passing the water - Calvino literature and social criticism Collection (2000) ISBN: 4022574666 [Japanese Import] (2000) 2 copies
I Meridiani - Romanzi e Racconti 2 copies
Sen "Alo" Demeden Önce 2 copies
All in a Day 2 copies
Mbi përrallën 2 copies
La giornata d'uno scultore 2 copies
Fábulas e Contos - Volume III 2 copies
Fábulas e Contos - Volume II 2 copies
Castelli e fortificazioni 2 copies
Sizilianische Märchen aus der Sammlung von Italo Calvino / Fiabe siciliane dalla raccolta di Italo Calvino… (1997) 2 copies
The daughters of the moon 2 copies
At Daybreak {short story} 2 copies
Un re in ascolto / Ein König horcht 2 copies
The Light Years {short story} 2 copies
How Much Shall We Bet? {short story} 2 copies
Games Without End {short story} 2 copies
The Aquatic Uncle {short story} 2 copies
Without Colors {short story} 2 copies
The Form of Space {short story} 2 copies
Bando del premio Italo Calvino 2 copies
The Dinosaurs {short story} 2 copies
Ejderha ile Kelebekler 1 copy
FIABE ITALIANE VOLUME 2 1 copy
Quem Sou? - eBook 1 copy
Prisão Perpétua - eBook 1 copy
Novedades Enero Julio 1991 1 copy
Liguria 1 copy
Italian Folktales: Volume 2 1 copy
Italian Folktales: Volume 1 1 copy
Stien med edderkopperne 1 copy
Italia — Contributor — 1 copy
TE PARET TANE 1 copy
魔法の庭・空を見上げる部族 他十四篇 1 copy
Prefazioni a Shakespeare 1 copy
Lettere, 1924-1944 1 copy
شوالیهی ناموجود 1 copy
Paese infido (in I racconti) 1 copy
Il mare dell'oggettività 1 copy
Il libro, i libri 1 copy
Il gigante orripilante 1 copy
Altri romanzi 1 copy
Amore e ginnastica 1 copy
Le memorie di Casanova 1 copy
Burvju Gredzens 1 copy
Anabasi Senofonte introduzione di Italo Calvino — Introduction — 1 copy
مختارات قصصية 1 copy
IL PAESE NON PUÒ ATTENDERE 1 copy
Aizenberg: Dibujos 1 copy
L'aria buona (in I racconti) 1 copy
La panchina (in I racconti) 1 copy
Luna e Gnac (in I racconti) 1 copy
Associated Works
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Contributor — 562 copies
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contributor — 99 copies
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Contributor — 62 copies
Italien erzählt : elf Erzählungen — Author — 5 copies
Halt auf freiem Felde : Eisenbahnabenteuer von Agatha Christie bis Tucholsky (1975) — Author — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Calvino, Italo
- Legal name
- Calvino Mameli, Italo Giovanni
- Other names
- Cavilla, Tonio
- Birthdate
- 1923-10-15
- Date of death
- 1985-09-19
- Burial location
- Cemetery of Castiglione Della Pescaia, Pescaia, Italy
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Italy
- Country (for map)
- Italy
- Birthplace
- Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba
- Place of death
- Siena, Italy
- Cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- Places of residence
- San Remo, Italy
Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba (birth)
Turin, Italy
Paris, France
Siena, Italy (death) - Education
- University of Turin (Lic. 1947)
- Occupations
- journalist
short-story writer
novelist
essayist - Relationships
- Calvino, Mario (father)
Calvino, Eva Mameli (mother)
Singer, Chichita (wife) - Organizations
- American Academy
Oulipo
Italian Resistance (WWII) - Awards and honors
- Légion d'Honneur
Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1976)
Premio Feltrinelli (1973)
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