Chicita is dead: she was Calvino's wife

Chichita Calvino, Italo's wife, died today in Rome. The Einaudi publishing house announced the news.
Born in 1925 in Buenos Aires, Esther Judith Singer, a translator, met the writer in Paris in 1962. In 1964 they married in Havana. A translator of her husband's works, which she helped spread throughout the world, Chichita also worked for international organizations such as UNESCO. She leaves behind two children: Marcello Weill, and Giovanna, born in '65 from her union with the author of Invisible Cities, The Baron in the Trees, and The Path to the Nest of Spiders. Widowed since 1985, after the writer's premature death in Siena, Chichita had lived in the capital since then.