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Calvino as Last Name

Italo Calvino            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian
Italo Calvino: was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).Lionised in Britain and America, he was, at the time of his death, the most-translated contemporary Italian writer.