Italo Calvino
1923–1985 · Italian (Cuba-born) · 20th Century
Known for: If on a winter's night a reader picks up this bio — the Italian postmodernist who made novels into games
Calvino wrote If on a winter's night a traveler, Invisible Cities, and the Cosmicomics — playful, inventive novels that made fiction into intellectual puzzles.
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