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 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 1,693,971 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Italo Calvino is the 278th most popular writer (up from 303rd 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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  • 70.64

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  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
1979
Palomar
1983
Il barone rampante
1957
Fiabe italiane
Folklore
Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself clearly captivated by the folkloric imagination and communicates this in what is a fascinating and rich addition to folk literature.
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Il visconte dimezzato
1952
Marcovaldo
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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Italo Calvino ranks 278 out of 7,302. Before him are Alcaeus of Mytilene, Jordanes, Marguerite Duras, Henrik Pontoppidan, Alphonse Daudet, and Kenzaburō Ōe. After him are Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Paul Heyse, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alfonso X of Castile, and William Golding.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Italo Calvino ranks 11. Before him are Heydar Aliyev, Idi Amin, Wisława Szymborska, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, Rocky Marciano, and Charlton Heston. After him are Wojciech Jaruzelski, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Irma Grese, Marcel Marceau, Nadine Gordimer, and Mas Oyama. Among people deceased in 1985, Italo Calvino ranks 6. Before him are Marc Chagall, Enver Hoxha, Yul Brynner, Konstantin Chernenko, and Heinrich Böll. After him are Carl Schmitt, Simone Signoret, Fernand Braudel, Orson Welles, László Bíró, and Jean Dubuffet.

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In Cuba

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 José Martí (1853), Paul Lafargue (1842), Camilo Cienfuegos (1932), Alberto Korda (1928), Andy García (1956), Gloria Estefan (1957), and Compay Segundo (1907).

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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), José-Maria de Heredia (1842), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), Leonardo Padura Fuentes (1955), José Lezama Lima (1910), Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950), Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814), José María Heredia y Heredia (1803), and Alina Fernández (1956).

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