Calvino

Italian writer and journalist Italo Calvino was born on 15 October 1923, in Cuba, and died on 19 September 1985, in Italy. He has been one of the most important names in Italian culture after the 2nd World War. Apart from his fictional writings, he was also known with his membership of the Communist Party and his job in Einaudi Publishing House. He was acknowledged as a Postmodernist writer. 

His important works can be listed as follows: 

§  1947:        Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (The Path to the Spiders' Nests)

§  1952:        Il visconte dimezzato (The Cloven Viscount)

§  1952:        La formica argentina (The Argentine Ant)

§  1954:        L'entrata in guerra (Into the War)

§  1956:        Fiabe Italiane (Italian Fables)

§  1957:        Il barone rampante (The Baron in the Trees)

§  1957:        La speculazione edilizia (A Plunge into Real Estate)

§  1959:        Il cavaliere inesistente (The Nonexistent Knight)

§  1963:        La giornata d'uno scrutatore (The Watcher)

§  1963:        Marcovaldo ovvero le stagioni in città (Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City)

§  1965:        La nuvola di smog (Smog)

§  1965:        Le cosmicomiche (Cosmicomics)

§  1967:        Ti con zero (T zero)

§  1969:        Il castello dei destini incrociati (The Castle of Crossed Destinies)

§  1970:        Gli amori difficili (Difficult Loves)

§  1972:        Le città invisibili (Invisible Cities)

§  1979:        Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (If on a winter's night a traveler)

§  1983:        Palomar (Mr. Palomar)

§  1986:        Sotto il sole giaguaro (Under the Jaguar Sun)

§  1990:        La strada di San Giovanni (The Road to San Giovanni)

§  1994:        Eremita a Parigi (Hermit in Paris)