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Italo Calvino
Italian writer and journalist (1923–1985)
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Italo Calvino (,[1][2]also,[3]Italian:[ˈiːtalokalˈviːno];[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 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.[5] He is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany.
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Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, a suburb of Havana, Cuba, in 1923. His father, Mario [it], was a tropical agronomist and botanist who also taught agriculture and floricult