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Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923. He grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Series
Our Ancestors
1. The Cloven Viscount (1951)
2. The Baron in the Trees (1957)
3. The Non-Existent Knight (1959)
1. The Cloven Viscount (1951)
2. The Baron in the Trees (1957)
3. The Non-Existent Knight (1959)
Novels
Collections
Adam, One Afternoon (1949)
Into the War (1954)
Italian Folktales (1956)
Ten Italian Folktales (1956)
Marcovaldo (1963)
Cosmicomics (1965)
The Watcher (1965)
T-Zero (1967)
aka Time and the Hunter
Invisible Cities (1972)
The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1973)
Mr Palomar (1983)
Difficult Loves (1983)
Under the Jaguar Sun (1985)
Numbers in the Dark (1995)
The Complete Cosmicomics (2009)
The Queen's Necklace (2011)
The Distance of the Moon (2018)
Last Comes the Raven (2021)
Into the War (1954)
Italian Folktales (1956)
Ten Italian Folktales (1956)
Marcovaldo (1963)
Cosmicomics (1965)
The Watcher (1965)
T-Zero (1967)
aka Time and the Hunter
Invisible Cities (1972)
The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1973)
Mr Palomar (1983)
Difficult Loves (1983)
Under the Jaguar Sun (1985)
Numbers in the Dark (1995)
The Complete Cosmicomics (2009)
The Queen's Necklace (2011)
The Distance of the Moon (2018)
Last Comes the Raven (2021)
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Why Read the Classics? (1978)
The Uses of Literature (1986)
Literature Machine (1987)
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988)
The Road to San Giovanni (1990)
Hermit in Paris (2003)
Selected Letters (2006)
Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 (2013)
Collection of Sand (2013)
The Written World and the Unwritten World (2020)
The Narrative of Trajan's Column (2020)
The Uses of Literature (1986)
Literature Machine (1987)
Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988)
The Road to San Giovanni (1990)
Hermit in Paris (2003)
Selected Letters (2006)
Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 (2013)
Collection of Sand (2013)
The Written World and the Unwritten World (2020)
The Narrative of Trajan's Column (2020)
Anthologies containing stories by Italo Calvino
Out of This World 10 (1959)
Black Water (1983)
The Slaying of the Dragon (1984)
The Book of Dragons (1995)
Black Water (1983)
The Slaying of the Dragon (1984)
The Book of Dragons (1995)
Short stories
| Games Without End | |||
| Adam, One Afternoon [short story] (1949) | |||
| The Argentine Ant (1952) | |||
| The Dragon and the Enchanted Filly (1956) |
Awards
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Books about Italo Calvino
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