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Italo Calvino

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Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer best known for 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, he was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death.

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1923 1
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1985 1
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1. Italo Calvino (Wikipedia)
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Italo Calvino ... was an Italian novelist and short story writer.
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Invisible Cities (Wikipedia)
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Invisible Cities (Italian: Le citta invisibili) is a postmodern novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino.
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