Italo Calvino
15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985
Italo Calvino was an Italian writer and journalist, born in Cuba to Italian botanists and raised in San Remo. After fighting with the Italian Resistance he published his first novel in 1947 and worked as an editor at the publisher Einaudi, producing a body of fabulist and experimental fiction that includes the Our Ancestors trilogy, Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler.
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Life events
Born near Havana, where his parents worked as agronomists.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGrew up in Liguria, where his father directed an experimental floriculture station.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgFought with the Garibaldi partisan brigades in the Ligurian mountains against the German occupation.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted a degree in literature with a thesis on Joseph Conrad.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Path to the Spiders' Nests drew on his experience of the partisan war and won the Premio Riccione.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees and The Non-Existent Knight appeared between 1952 and 1959 and were later collected as a trilogy.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgMarried the Argentine translator known as Chichita; their daughter Giovanna was born in 1965.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLived in France for over a decade and came into contact with the Oulipo group of writers.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA sequence of prose descriptions of imaginary cities framed as reports by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied of a cerebral haemorrhage while preparing the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures for Harvard University.
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