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.
Awards: WFA (1982)
Genres: Literary Fiction
Series
Our Ancestors
1. The Cloven Viscount (1951)
2. The Baron in the Trees (1957)
3. The Non-Existent Knight (1959)
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
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 (1984)
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)
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 (1984)
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
Non fiction
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Books containing stories by Italo Calvino
The Road to Science Fiction 6 (1998)
Around the World
(Road to Science Fiction, book 6)
edited by
James Gunn
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Italo Calvino recommends
Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto.. (2011)
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