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Italo Calvino – Lioness at Large

Italo Calvino

(1923 – 1985)

Italo CalvinoBiographical Sketch

Italo Calvino (Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, October 15, 1923 – Siena, Italy, September 19, 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. 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).

Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Read more about Italo Calvino on Wikipedia.

 

Major Awards and Honors

Premio Viareggio (Italy)
  • 1957: Narrativa – “Il barone rampante”
    (tied with Arturo Tofanelli’s “L’uomo d’oro” and Natalia Ginzbur’s “Valentino”)
Premio Letterario Internazionale Mondello (Italy)
  • 1984: Best Work by an Italian Author – “Palomar”
Légion d’Honneur (France)
  • 1981: Chevalier de la Légion
American Academy
  • 1975: Honorary Member
Austrian State Prize for European Literature
  • 1976

 

Bibliography

Novels, Novellas, Tales
  • Il Sentiero dei Nidi di Ragno (1947)
    (The Path to the Spiders’ Nests)
  • Il Midollo del Leone (1955)
  • I Nostri Antenati (1960)
    (Our Ancestors)

    • Il Visconte Dimezzato (1952)
      (The Cloven Viscount)
    • Il Barone Rampante (1957)
      (The Baron in the Trees)
    • Il Cavaliere Inesistente (1959)
      (The Nonexistent Knight)
  • Marcovaldo ovvero Le Stagioni in Città (1963)
    (Marcovaldo, or the Seasons in the City)
  • Le Cosmicomiche (1964)
    (Cosmicomics)
  • Ti con Zero (1967)
    (T Zero)
  • Le Città Invisibili (1972)
    (Invisible Cities)
  • Il Castello dei Destini Incrociati (1973)
    (The Castle of Crossed Destinies)
  • Se una Notte d’Inverno un Viaggiatore (1979)
    (If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler)
  • Palomar (1983)
    (Mr. Palomar)
Short Story and Fable Collections
  • Ultimo Viene Il Corvo (1949)
    (One Afternoon and Other Stories)
  • Le Fiabe Italiane (1956)
    (Italian Folktales)
  • Racconti (1958)
  • Il Mare dell’Oggettività (1959)
    – Contribution to Il Menabò.
  • La Sfida del Labirinto (1962)
    – Contribution to Il Menabò.
  • La Giornata di uno Scrutatore (1963)
    (Time and the Hunter)
  • Nuvola di Smog (1968)
    (Smog)
  • Collezione di Sabbia (1984)
  • Sotto il Sole Giaguaro (1986)
    (Under the Jaguar Sun)
    Il Nome, il Naso
    Sotto il Sole Giaguaro
    Un Re in Ascolto
  • Difficult Loves (1993)
  • Adam, One Afternoon and Other Stories (1993)
  • Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories (1996)
Essays, Articles, Lectures, Memoirs
  • Una Pietra Sopra (1980)
    (The Uses of Literature)
  • Lezioni Americane (1985)
  • The Literature Machine: Essays (1987)
  • Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988)
  • La Strada De San Giovanni (1992)
    (The Road to San Giovanni)
  • The Hermit in Paris (1995)
  • Why Read the Classics? (2000)

 

A Favorite Quote

The Uses of Literature

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”

Find more quotes by Italo Calvino on Wikiquote and Goodreads.

 

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