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Giuseppe Berto
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Born (1914-12-27)27 December 1914
Mogliano Veneto, Italy
Died 1 November 1978(1978-11-01) (aged 63)
Rome, Italy
Occupation Novelist and screenwriter
Years active 1947–1978

Giuseppe Berto (27 December 1914 – 1 November 1978) was an Italian writer and screenwriter. He is mostly known for his novels Il cielo è rosso (The Sky Is Red) and Il male oscuro.

He was a prisoner at Camp Hereford from 1943 to 1946.

Selected works

  • Il cielo è rosso a novel, published in 1947, about a group of displaced teenagers during World War II (The Sky Is Red – translation by Angus Davidson)
  • Opere di Dio short stories, published in 1948 (The Works of God and Other Stories – translation by Angus Davidson)
  • Il brigante a novel, published in 1951 (The Brigand – translation by Angus Davidson)
  • Il male oscuro a "novel of neurosis and psychoanalysis", which in 1964 won him the Viareggio Prize and the Campiello Prize (Incubus – translation by William Weaver)
  • La cosa buffa a novel, published in 1966 (Antonio in Love – translation by William Weaver)
  • Anonimo Veneziano a novel, published in 1971 (Anonymous Venetian – translation by Valerie Southorn)
  • La Passione secondo noi stessi (The Passion According to Ourselves), a 1972 play (not translated into English)
  • La gloria a novel, published in 1978, about Judas's betrayal of Jesus (not translated into English)

Selected filmography

  • Eleonora Duse (1947)
  • La tua donna (1954)
  • The Wanderers (1956)

Screenwriter

Partial list of screenplays written by Berto:

  • "Il cielo è rosso" (The Sky is Red), film directed by Claudio Gora
  • "La cosa buffa" (The Funny Thing), film directed by Aldo Lado
  • "Salvo D'Acquisto", film directed by Romolo Guerrieri (1974)
  • "Il male oscuro" (Dark Illness), film directed by Mario Monicelli
  • "Anonimo veneziano" (The Anonymous Venetian), film directed by Enrico Maria Salerno (1970)
  • "Oh, Serafina!", film directed by Alberto Lattuada (1976)

See also

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