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Italo Calvino

Italy (1923 - 1985)

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)

Novels

   The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947)
   If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1981)
     aka If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

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)

Anthologies edited

Fantastic Tales (1993)

Non fiction

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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)

Short stories

	Games Without End
	Adam, One Afternoon [short story] (1949)
	The Argentine Ant (1952)
	The Dragon and the Enchanted Filly (1956)

Awards

World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (1982)

Italo Calvino recommends

Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto.. (2011)
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