Italian novelist and screenwriter
Giuseppe Berto
Born (1914-12-27 ) 27 December 1914Died 1 November 1978(1978-11-01) (aged 63)Rome, Italy
Occupation(s) 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 The Sky Is Red (Il cielo è rosso ) and Incubus (Il male oscuro ).
He was a prisoner at Camp Hereford from 1943 to 1946.[ 1]
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
Screenwriter
Partial list of screenplays written by Berto:
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