Italo Calvino

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Italo Calvino was a renowned 20th-century Italian writer celebrated for his imaginative, metafictional narratives and works such as "Invisible Cities" and "If on a winter's night a traveler."

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awardReceived Antonio Feltrinelli Prize
surface form: Feltrinelli Prize for Narrative

Viareggio Prize
birthName Italo Calvino self-link
causeOfDeath cerebral hemorrhage
child Giovanna Calvino
citizenship Italy
countryOfBirth Cuba
countryOfDeath Italy
dateOfBirth 1923-10-15
dateOfDeath 1985-09-19
educatedAt University of Turin
ethnicOrigin Italian
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gender male
genre allegory
fantasy literature
metafiction
postmodern novel
science fiction
givenName Italo
hasSignatureWork If on a winter's night a traveler
Invisible Cities
influenced David Mitchell
Umberto Eco
postmodern literature
influencedBy Franz Kafka
Jorge Luis Borges
Luigi Pirandello
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
memberOf Italian Communist Party
militaryBranch Italian partisans
movement Oulipo
neorealism
postmodern literature
name Italo Calvino self-link
nationality Italian
notableWork Cosmicomics
If on a winter's night a traveler
Invisible Cities
Marcovaldo
Mr. Palomar
The Baron in the Trees
The Cloven Viscount
The Nonexistent Knight
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
occupation editor
journalist
participatedIn Italian Resistance
placeOfBirth Santiago de las Vegas
placeOfDeath Siena
religion atheism
residence Paris
Rome
Turin
spouse Esther Judith Singer
workedFor Einaudi
workPeriod 20th century

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Jorge Luis Borges influenced Italo Calvino
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