WRITER

Italo Calvino

1923 - 1985

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Italo Calvino (, also US: ; Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian novelist and short story writer. 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. He is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Italo Calvino is the 322nd most popular writer (down from 278th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Cuba and the most popular Cuban Writer.

Italo Calvino is most famous for his novel, "Invisible Cities," which was published in 1972. The novel is a series of imaginary dialogues between the philosopher Marco Polo and the emperor Kublai Khan.

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Among writers, Italo Calvino ranks 322 out of 7,302. Before him are Ernst Jünger, Antonin Artaud, Doris Lessing, Héloïse, François Mauriac, and Henri Charrière. After him are Marguerite de Navarre, Nadine Gordimer, Paul Celan, Colette, Anne Brontë, and André Malraux.

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Among people born in 1923, Italo Calvino ranks 14. Before him are Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Heydar Aliyev, Charlton Heston, Joseph Heller, Wojciech Jaruzelski, and Irma Grese. After him are Nadine Gordimer, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Rocky Marciano, Peter II of Yugoslavia, György Ligeti, and Marcel Marceau. Among people deceased in 1985, Italo Calvino ranks 10. Before him are Yul Brynner, Heinrich Böll, Charles Francis Richter, Macfarlane Burnet, Orson Welles, and Rodney Robert Porter. After him are Fernand Braudel, Carl Schmitt, Jean Dubuffet, László Bíró, Simone Signoret, and Philip Larkin.

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Among people born in Cuba, Italo Calvino ranks 5 out of 300. Before him are Fidel Castro (1926), Raúl Castro (1931), Fulgencio Batista (1901), and José Raúl Capablanca (1888). After him are Miguel Díaz-Canel (1960), José Martí (1853), Paul Lafargue (1842), Alberto Korda (1928), Camilo Cienfuegos (1932), Andy García (1956), and Gloria Estefan (1957).

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Among WRITERS In Cuba

Among writers born in Cuba, Italo Calvino ranks 1. After him are José Martí (1853), Paul Lafargue (1842), Nicolás Guillén (1902), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), José-Maria de Heredia (1842), José Lezama Lima (1910), Leonardo Padura Fuentes (1955), Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950), Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814), Dulce María Loynaz (1902), and José María Heredia y Heredia (1803).

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