Italo Calvino

Italian · 1923–1985

Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was an Italian writer celebrated for his imaginative and metafictional novels and short stories, often exploring themes of identity, perception, and the nature of storytelling. He is considered one of the most important Italian writers of the 20th century.

Books by Italo Calvino

• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (1982)
• The Nonexistent Knight (1959)
• Mr. Palomar (1983)
• Invisible Cities (1972)
• Cosmicomics (1965)
• Marcovaldo (1963)
• Six Memos for the Next Millennium (1988)
• Difficult Loves (1970)
• The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947)
• The Cloven Viscount (1952)
• The Baron in the Trees (1957)