伊塔洛·卡尔维诺（Italo Calvino，1923年10月15日－1985年9月19日），出生在古巴的意大利新闻工作者，短篇小说家，作家。他奇特和充满想象的寓言作品使他成为二十世纪最重要的意大利小说家之一。
Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985) was an Italian journalist and short story write . His strange and imaginative allegorical works made him one of the most important Italian novelists of the twentieth century.
卡尔维诺毕业于都灵大学文学系，曾参加反法西斯抵抗运动。处女作《通向蜘蛛巢的小路》（1947），用非英雄化的手法反映游击队的生活。
Calvino graduated from the Department of Literature at the University of Turin. He had participated in the anti-fascist resistance movement. His debut novel, "The Path to the Spider's Nest" (1947), reflected the life of the guerrillas in a non-heroic way.
他其他的作品包括：五十年代问世的《我们的先人》三部曲：《分为两半的子爵》（1952）、《树上的男爵》（1957）、《不存在的骑士》（1959），既似现实中的童话，又像童话中的现实，把西方世界中人丧失自我本质的境遇淋漓尽致地表现了出来。三部曲使作家获得世界声誉。随后发表的作品《宇宙谐趣》（1965）、《看不见的城市》（1972）、《如果一个冬夜，一个旅行者……》（1979，原译寒冬夜行人）。卡尔维诺的思想渗透着对迷乱的现实的思索，颇具后现代主义的特色。
His other works include: the "Our Ancestors" trilogy that came out in the 1950s: "The Viscount in Two" (1952), "The Baron in the Trees" (1957), "The Non-Existent Knight" ( 1959), which is both like a real fairy tale and the reality in fairy tales, vividly expressing the situation in which people in the Western world lose their own essence. This trilogy brought the writer world fame. The Subsequently published works "Cosmic Humor" (1965), "Invisible City" (1972), and "If a Traveler on a Winter Night..." (1979, original translation: Traveler on a Cold Winter Night) penetrated the confusing reality and is typically that of postmodernism.
卡尔维诺的《意大利童话》（1956）是他长期搜集、研究意大利各地区童话的结晶，已被译成许多国家的文字。
Calvino's "Italian Fairy Tales" (1956) is the culmination of his long-term collection and research of fairy tales from various regions of Italy. It has been translated into languages in many countries.
在中国翻译出版的卡尔维诺作品《意大利童话》
《如果在冬夜，一个旅人》（原译名《寒冬夜行人》），写成于1979年。但是在上世纪80年代初已经开始被翻译介绍到中国了。意大利研究专家吕同六教授1979年到意大利访学，适逢这本书出版，他便去拜访了卡尔维诺，而后将书引进翻译到中国。所以，中国了解卡尔维诺与意大利人了解卡尔维诺也几乎是同步的。
"If It's a Winter Night, a Traveler" was written in 1979. In the early 1980s, it was introduced to China. Professor Lu Tongliu, an expert on Italian studies, visited Italy in 1979. he met Calvino and then arranged the book’s translation into Chinese.
卡尔维诺在中国大幅度的知名，是可以用一夜成名这个词来形容的。这个节点是1997年，就是王小波去世。王小波火了以后，人们就特别关注一个问题：王为什么这么会写作，他受到了谁的影响？人们就开始找王小波的各种信息，他有篇文章叫《我的师承》，其中提到的中国作家并不多，提到的外国作家也不多，但是他反反复复提及的几个名字就包括博尔赫斯，以及卡尔维诺。大家由于喜欢王小波进而关注卡尔维诺，也就大大提高了卡尔维诺受欢迎的程度。吕同六老师组织意大利文学研究者，开始系统翻译卡尔维诺的作品，后汇总为“卡尔维诺文集第一卷”。卡尔维诺以新的频率和方式在中国传播着，且大有如火如荼之势。
Calvino's great popularity in China can be described as overnight fame. The time was in 1997, when the writer Wang Xiaobo passed away. After Wang Xiaobo became popular, people paid special attention to one question: Why is Wang so good at writing, and who influenced him? People began to look for various information about Wang Xiaobo. Wang once wrote an article "My Inheritance", in which he mentioned several Names include Borges and Calvino. Because of this, many fans of Wang Xiaobo began to pay attention to Calvino, Calvino's popularity is greatly increased. Meanwhile in the professional field, Mr. Lu Tongliu organized a number of Italian literature researchers and began to translate Calvino's works, which were later compiled into "Volume 1 of Calvino's Collected Works". Calvino is spreading in China with new frequency and methods, and it is in full swing.
2001年，互联网上有一批酷爱卡尔维诺的年轻人，他们把卡尔维诺的所有作品以接力的方式，用手敲键盘录入所有能找到的版本，包括转译本，甚至包括英文本，还有评论文章等。这个网站现在可能已经消失了，但是它的残骸大家在网上也能找到，叫“卡尔维诺爱好者”。
In 2001, a group of young fans of Calvino entered all of Calvino's works in a relay manner by typing on the keyboard to record all the versions they could find, including translated versions and English versions, Italian versions, etc. They did a good job indeed. Although the site may be gone now,its remains can still be found online under the name "Calvino Lovers."
可以说，卡尔维诺在中国的传播和在中国的接受（程度），至少不比其他国家落后，甚至在某种程度上还是比较超前的。
There for it can be said that Calvino's spread and acceptance in China are at least not lagging behind ; maybe ahead to some extent.
