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Italo Calvino


Italy (1923 - 1985)

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
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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
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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)
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Anthologies edited
   Fantastic Tales (1993)
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Non fiction
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Books containing stories by Italo Calvino
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Great Italian Stories (2024)
(Parallel Texts)
edited by
Jhumpa Lahiri
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The Road to Science Fiction 6 (1998)
Around the World
(Road to Science Fiction, book 6)
edited by
James Gunn

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Awards
1982 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement

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