1923 - 1985
Italo Calvino (, also US: , Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Italo Calvino has received more than 1,583,693 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 65 in 2019). Italo Calvino is the 303rd most popular writer (up from 306th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Cuba (down from 4th in 2019) 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 303 out of 5,755. Before him are Lucan, Saadi Shirazi, Fuzûlî, Heinrich von Kleist, Alberto Moravia, and Alejandro Jodorowsky. After him are Marguerite de Navarre, Roger Martin du Gard, Lorenzo Valla, J. M. Coetzee, Paul Heyse, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
39 - 65
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 297
1210 - 1291
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 298
1494 - 1556
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 299
1777 - 1811
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 300
1907 - 1990
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 301
1929 - Present
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 302
1923 - 1985
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 303
1492 - 1549
HPI: 69.75
Rank: 304
1881 - 1958
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 305
1407 - 1457
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 306
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.57
Rank: 307
1830 - 1914
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 308
1892 - 1927
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 309
Among people born in 1923, Italo Calvino ranks 14. Before him are Heydar Aliyev, Charlton Heston, Marcel Marceau, Irma Grese, Rocky Marciano, and Wojciech Jaruzelski. After him are Peter II of Yugoslavia, Carroll Shelby, György Ligeti, Richard Attenborough, Franco Zeffirelli, and Alan Shepard. Among people deceased in 1985, Italo Calvino ranks 9. Before him are Konstantin Chernenko, Yul Brynner, Heinrich Böll, Orson Welles, Fernand Braudel, and Carl Schmitt. After him are László Bíró, Simone Signoret, Rock Hudson, Charles Francis Richter, Dian Fossey, and Jean Dubuffet.
1923 - 2003
HPI: 72.17
Rank: 8
1923 - 2008
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 9
1923 - 2007
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 10
1923 - 1945
HPI: 70.13
Rank: 11
1923 - 1969
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 12
1923 - 2014
HPI: 70.02
Rank: 13
1923 - 1985
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 14
1923 - 1970
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 15
1923 - 2012
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 16
1923 - 2006
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 17
1923 - 2014
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 18
1923 - 2019
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 19
1923 - 1998
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 20
1911 - 1985
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 3
1920 - 1985
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 4
1917 - 1985
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 5
1915 - 1985
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 6
1902 - 1985
HPI: 70.47
Rank: 7
1888 - 1985
HPI: 69.86
Rank: 8
1923 - 1985
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 9
1899 - 1985
HPI: 69.31
Rank: 10
1921 - 1985
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 11
1925 - 1985
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 12
1900 - 1985
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 13
1932 - 1985
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 14
1901 - 1985
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 15
Among people born in Cuba, Italo Calvino ranks 5 out of 248. Before him are Fidel Castro (1926), Raúl Castro (1931), Fulgencio Batista (1901), and José Raúl Capablanca (1888). After him are Camilo Cienfuegos (1932), José Martí (1853), Paul Lafargue (1842), Andy García (1956), Alberto Korda (1928), Compay Segundo (1907), and Gloria Estefan (1957).
1926 - 2016
HPI: 83.61
Rank: 1
1931 - Present
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 2
1901 - 1973
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 3
1888 - 1942
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 4
1923 - 1985
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 5
1932 - 1959
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 6
1853 - 1895
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 7
1842 - 1911
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 8
1956 - Present
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 9
1928 - 2001
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 10
1907 - 2003
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 11
1957 - Present
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Cuba, Italo Calvino ranks 1. After him are José Martí (1853), Paul Lafargue (1842), Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Nicolás Guillén (1902), José-Maria de Heredia (1842), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), José Lezama Lima (1910), Leonardo Padura Fuentes (1955), Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950), Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814), and José María Heredia y Heredia (1803).
1923 - 1985
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 1
1853 - 1895
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 2
1842 - 1911
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 3
1943 - 1990
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 4
1902 - 1989
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 5
1842 - 1905
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 6
1929 - 2005
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 7
1910 - 1976
HPI: 51.24
Rank: 8
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 9
1950 - Present
HPI: 49.54
Rank: 10
1814 - 1873
HPI: 49.39
Rank: 11
1803 - 1839
HPI: 48.79
Rank: 12