Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, which includes The Baron in the Trees, the Cosmicomics short stories, and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, an experimental metafiction. Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, he was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death.