He accepted, however, both the Asti Prize and the Feltrinelli Prize for his writing in 19, respectively. That same year, he turned down the Viareggio Prize for Ti con zero (Time and the Hunter) on the grounds that it was an award given by вЂњinstitutions emptied of meaningвЂќ. Nicknamed LвЂ™ironique amusГ©, he was invited by Raymond Queneau in 1968 to join the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littГ©rature potentielle) group of experimental writers where he met Roland Barthes, and Georges Perec, all of whom influenced his later production. Perhaps itвЂ™s a metabolic process, something that comes with age, IвЂ™d been young for a long time, perhaps too long, suddenly I felt that I had to begin my old age, yes, old age, perhaps with the hope of prolonging it by beginning it early.вЂќ In the fermenting atmosphere that evolved into 1968вЂ™s cultural revolution (the French May), he moved with his family to Paris in 1967, setting up home in a villa in the Square de ChГўtillon. He went through what he called an вЂњintellectual depressionвЂќ, which the writer himself described as an important passage in his life: вЂњвЂ¦I ceased to be young.

VittoriniвЂ™s death in 1966 greatly affected Calvino. Italo Calvino is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia, in Tuscany. This video is about The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features. Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, he was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death.

His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952вЂ“1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winterвЂ™s night a traveler (1979). Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 вЂ“ 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist.

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