The novelist, journalist and painter Dino Buzzati is one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Italian literature. He is best remembered today for his novel The Tartar Steppe and the story The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily, which he illustrated himself and has become a classic of Italian children’s literature.

Out of Italy, which gave the world Pinocchio, has come a new and fine children’s story, the kind that grown-ups borrow from kids

The novelist, journalist and painter Dino Buzzati is one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Italian literature. He is best remembered today for his novel The Tartar Steppe and the story The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily, which he illustrated himself and has become a classic of Italian children’s literature.

Out of Italy, which gave the world Pinocchio, has come a new and fine children’s story, the kind that grown-ups borrow from kids

The novelist, journalist and painter Dino Buzzati is one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Italian literature. He is best remembered today for his novel The Tartar Steppe and the story The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily, which he illustrated himself and has become a classic of Italian children’s literature.

Out of Italy, which gave the world Pinocchio, has come a new and fine children’s story, the kind that grown-ups borrow from kids