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Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

Writer

Italo Calvino (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. He is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany. Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, a suburb of Havana, Cuba, in 1923. His father, Mario, was a tropical agronomist and botanist who also taught agriculture and floriculture. Born 47 years earlier in Sanremo, Italy, Mario Calvino had emigrated to Mexico in 1909 where he took up an important position with the Ministry of Agriculture. In an autobiographical essay, Italo Calvino explained that his father "had been in his youth an anarchist, a follower of Kropotkin and then a Socialist Reformist". In 1917, Mario left for Cuba to conduct scientific experiments, after living through the Mexican Revolution. Calvino's mother, Giuliana Luigia Evelina "Eva" Mameli, was a botanist and university professor. A native of Sassari in Sardinia and 11 years younger than her husband, she married while still a junior lecturer at Pavia University. Born into a secular family, Eva was a pacifist educated in the "religion of civic duty and science". Eva gave Calvino his unusual first name to remind him of his Italian heritage, although since he wound up growing up in Italy after all, Calvino thought his name sounded "belligerently nationalist". Calvino described his parents as being "very different in personality from one another", suggesting perhaps deeper tensions behind a comfortable, albeit strict, middle-class upbringing devoid of conflict. As an adolescent, he found it hard relating to poverty and the working-class, and was "ill at ease" with his parents' openness to the labourers who filed into his father's study on Saturdays to receive their weekly paycheck. In 1925, less than two years after Calvino's birth, the family returned to Italy and settled permanently in Sanremo on the Ligurian coast. Calvino's brother Floriano, who became a distinguished geologist, was born in 1927. ... Source: Article "Italo Calvino" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Born: October 15, 1923 in Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba

Died: September 19, 1985 (Age 61)

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Italo Calvino  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
6.8
ActorSelf - Ecrivain (archive footage)2003
Movie
6.9
ActorSelf (archive footage)2023
TV Show
6.8
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1975-1990
Movie
7.1
WritingScreenplay1962
Movie
6
WritingAuthor1999
Movie
7.5
WritingNovel1969
Movie
6
WritingNovel1962
Movie
7.4
WritingWriter1962
Movie
6.5
WritingAuthor2019
Movie
WritingWriter1973
Short Film
6
WritingStory2013
Short Film
7.9
WritingStory2018
Short Film
WritingStory2012
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