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Calvino

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Cal·vi·no  (kl-vn, käl-), Italo 1923-1985.
Italian writer of allegorical tales, such as The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount (1962), and science fiction, including Cosmicomics (1965).
Calvino [kælˈviːnəʊ]
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(Biographies / Calvino, Italo (1923-1985) M, Italian, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: short-story writer) Italo. 1923-85, Italian novelist and short-story writer. His works include Our Ancestors (1960) and Invisible Cities (1972)
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Noun1.Calvino - Italian writer of novels and short stories (born in Cuba) (1923-1987)
Italo Calvino


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Luckily Italo Calvino has mapped out a resolution to the diagram dilemma.
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Born in Milan in 1922, Giorgio Manganelli did not emerge into the literary world until the early '60s, when he joined Gruppo '63, the avant-garde literary movement whose best-known members included Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco.
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From the short story "Theft in a Pastry Shop" by Italo Calvino (reprinted with permission)
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