Giuseppe Berto

Giuseppe Berto
Born	27 December 1914 Mogliano Veneto, Italy
Died	1 November 1978 (aged 63) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Writer, 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.

Selected Works

• Il cielo è rosso a novel, published in 1947, about a group of displaced teenagers during WWII (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)
• The Wanderers (1956)

External links

• Giuseppe Berto at the Internet Movie Database
• "The girl goes to Calabria" The Short Story Project.