TEHRAN – In honor of the 100th anniversary of Italo Calvino's birth, a renowned Italian writer, a commemorative event was held in Tehran on Thursday.

The letters of Italo Calvino are excerpted from “ Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985,” translated by Martin McLaughlin, which will be published by Princeton University Press on May 20th.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential 20th-century Italian novelist and essayist ...

André Alexis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ Waiting for Death in a Hotel,” by Italo Calvino, translated, from the Italian, by Martin McLaughlin, which was published in The New ...

Italo Calvino’s Complete Cosmicomics thrives on the tension between ideas and art. Italo Calvino Michael Wood begins his introduction to Italo Calvino’s Letters: 1941–1985 with a kind of ...

In 1983, the town of Ravello bestowed honorary citizenship on Gore Vidal. To mark the occasion, Italy’s most celebrated writer, Italo Calvino, offered his friend an encomium that quickly became ...

On the 100th anniversary of his birth, this documentary on Italo Calvino highlights one of his most celebrated accomplishments, The Baron in the Trees, using the novel to provide a unique perspective ...

Calvino The letters of Italo Calvino are excerpted from “ Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985,” translated by Martin McLaughlin, which will be published by Princeton University Press on May 20th.

This week on Page-Turner, we’ll have a series of excerpts from “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985&#8221 translated by Martin McLaughlin. What follows is an introduction by Michael Wood, and ...

This week on Page-Turner, we've been running a series of excerpts from “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985,” translated by Martin McLaughlin, which will be published on May 20th (read our first ...