Upon hearing of Italo Calvino’s death in September of 1985, John Updike commented, “Calvino was a genial as well as brilliant writer. He took fiction into new places where it had never been before, and back into the fabulous and ancient sources of narrative.” At that time.
Havana, Oct 3 (Prensa Latina) The centennial of the birth of the Italian writer Italo Calvino, on the 15th, will be celebrated in Cuba with an extensive program of activities, confirmed today the ambassador of that nation to the island, Roberto Vellano.