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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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Birth: | 15th October, 1923 |
Death: | 19th September, 1985 |
Nationality: | Italian |
Profession: | Journalist, Novelist, Writer |
Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the Cosmicomics collection of short stories, and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler. Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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