His works have been translated into dozens of languages. Among his many works are Invisible Cities, If on a winter’s night a traveler, The Baron in the Trees, and other novels, as well as numerous collections of fiction, folktales, criticism, and essays. Born in Cuba, he was raised in San Remo, Italy, and later lived in Turin, Paris, Rome, and elsewhere. Italo Calvino (1923–1985) is considered one of the twentieth century’s greatest storytellers. The lectures, collected as Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are now available in a celebrated new translation by Geoffrey Brock. Before his death he was able to complete five of the six planned lectures on the imaginative possibilities of language and literature. In 1984, Italo Calvino was invited to give the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University. The second of a series of events dedicated to the Memos written by Italo Calvino that begun with Jonathan Lethem’s lecture on “Lightness” and continues with a conversation between Paola Antonelli and Maria Popova on Quickness, Enchantment, and the Felicity of Storytelling.
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