Italo Calvino

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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1. When was Italo Calvino born?October 15, 1923
2. Where was Italo Calvino born?Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba
3. What is the career?Novelist, short story writer, essayist, translator, and literary critic
4. What is Italo Calvino known for?He was a famous Italian writer who made stories that mix fantasy and real life, like his books about a knight, a viscount, and a boy who lives in trees.
5. Why did Calvino write the 'Our Ancestors' trilogy?He used magical ideas to show real feelings and how people think about who they are and how society works.

Metafiction: A genre of fiction that self-consciously draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality.
Allegory: A narrative in which characters and events symbolize abstract ideas or principles, conveying a moral or political message.
Cosmology: The branch of astronomy concerned with the origin and evolution of the universe.
Neorealism: A post-World War II Italian artistic movement characterized by its focus on everyday people and social issues.