Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.
Italo Calvino Quotes
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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| Birth: | 15th October, 1923 |
| Death: | 19th September, 1985 |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Profession: | Journalist, Novelist, Writer |
About
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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