Italo Calvino
Italian journalist and writer (1923-1985)
Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist born in Cuba. 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).