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Giuseppe Berto

Born	(1914-12-27)27 December 1914 Mogliano Veneto, Italy
Died	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

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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

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

Screenwriter

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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 (1990)
"Anonimo veneziano" (The Anonymous Venetian), film directed by Enrico Maria Salerno (1970)
"Oh, Serafina!", film directed by Alberto Lattuada (1976)

References

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^ "Giuseppe Berto". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

External links

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Giuseppe Berto at IMDb
"The girl goes to Calabria" at The Short Story Project.

v t e Recipients of the Viareggio Prize
1930s	Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930) Corrado Tumiati (1931) Antonino Foschini (1932) Achille Campanile (1933) Raffaele Calzini (1934) Mario Massa – Stefano Pirandello (1935) Riccardo Bacchelli (1936) Guelfo Civinini (1937) Vittorio Giovanni Rossi – Enrico Pea (1938) Arnaldo Frateili – Orio Vergani – Maria Bellonci (1939)
1940s	Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)
1950s	Francesco Jovine – Carlo Bernari (1950) • Domenico Rea (1951) • Tommaso Fiore (1952) • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1953) • Rocco Scotellaro (1954) • Vasco Pratolini (1955) • Carlo Levi – Gianna Manzini (1956) • Italo Calvino – Pier Paolo Pasolini (1957) • Ernesto de Martino (1958) • Marino Moretti (1959)
1960s	Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) • Alberto Moravia (1961) • Giorgio Bassani (1962) • Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) • Giuseppe Berto (1964) • Goffredo Parise - Angelo Maria Ripellino (1965) • Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) • Raffaello Brignetti (1967) • Libero Bigiaretti (1968) • Fulvio Tomizza (1969)
1970s	Nello Saito (1970) • Ugo Attardi (1971) • Romano Bilenchi (1972) • Achille Campanile (1973) • Clotilde Marghieri (1974) • Paolo Volponi (1975) • Mario Tobino – Dario Bellezza – Sergio Solmi (1976) • Davide Lajolo (1977) • Antonio Altomonte – Mario Luzi (1978) • Giorgio Manganelli (1979)
1980s	Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)
1990s	Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)
2000s	Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – Jolanda Insana – Alfonso Berardinelli (2002) • Giuseppe Montesano (2003) • Edoardo Albinati – Andrea Tagliapietra – Livia Livi (2004) • Raffaele La Capria – Alberto Arbasino – Milo de Angelis (2005) • Gianni Celati – Giovanni Agosti – Giuseppe Conte – Roberto Saviano (2006) • Filippo Tuena – Paolo Mauri – Silvia Bre – Simona Baldanzi – Paolo Colagrande – Paolo Fallai (2007) • Francesca Sanvitale – Miguel Gotor – Eugenio De Signoribus (2008) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)
2010s	Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) • Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) • Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012) • Paolo Di Stefano – Giulio Guidorizzi – Enrico Testa (2013) • Francesco Pecoraro – Alessandro Fo – Luciano Mecacci (2014) • Antonio Scurati – Massimo Bucciantini – Franco Buffoni (2015) • Franco Cordelli – Bruno Pischedda – Sonia Gentili (2016) • Gianfranco Calligarich – Giuseppe Montesano – Stefano Carrai (2017) • Fabio Genovesi – Giuseppe Lupo (2018) • Emanuele Trevi – Renato Minore – Saverio Ricci (2019)
2020s	Paolo Di Paolo – Luciano Cecchinel – Giulio Ferroni (2020) • Edith Bruck - Flavio Santi - Walter Siti (2021) • Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli – Pietro Castellitto – Claudio Damiani – Wlodek Goldkorn – Agnese Pini – Veronica Raimo – Silvia Ronchey (2022)

v t e Recipients of the Bancarella Prize
1950s	1953 Ernest Hemingway 1954 Giovannino Guareschi 1955 Hervé Le Boterf 1956 Han Suyin 1957 Werner Keller 1958 Boris Pasternak 1959 Heinrich Gerlach
1960s	1960 Bonaventura Tecchi 1961 André Schwarz-Bart 1962 Cornelius Ryan 1963 Paolo Caccia Dominioni 1964 Giulio Bedeschi 1965 Luigi Preti 1966 Vincenzo Pappalettera 1967 Indro Montanelli 1968 Isaac Bashevis Singer 1969 Peter Colosimo
1970s	1970 Oriana Fallaci 1971 Enzo Biagi 1972 Alberto Bevilacqua 1973 Roberto Gervaso 1974 Giuseppe Berto 1975 Susanna Agnelli 1976 Carlo Cassola 1977 Giorgio Saviane 1978 Alex Haley 1979 Massimo Grillandi
1980s	1980 Maurice Denuzière 1981 Sergio Zavoli 1982 Gary Jennings 1983 Renato Barneschi 1984 Luciano De Crescenzo 1985 Giulio Andreotti 1986 Pasquale Festa Campanile 1987 Enzo Biagi 1988 Cesare Marchi 1989 Umberto Eco
1990s	1990 Vittorio Sgarbi 1991 Antonio Spinosa 1992 Alberto Bevilacqua 1993 Carmen Covito 1994 John Grisham 1995 Jostein Gaarder 1996 Stefano Zecchi 1997 Giampaolo Pansa 1998 Paco Ignacio Taibo 1999 Ken Follett
2000s	2000 Michael Connelly 2001 Andrea Camilleri 2002 Federico Audisio 2003 Alessandra Appiano 2004 Bruno Vespa 2005 Gianrico Carofiglio 2006 Andrea Vitali 2007 Frank Schätzing 2008 Valerio Massimo Manfredi 2009 Donato Carrisi
2010s	2010 Elizabeth Strout 2011 Mauro Corona 2012 Marcello Simoni 2013 Anna Premoli 2014 Michela Marzano 2015 Sara Rattaro 2016 Margherita Oggero 2017 Matteo Strukul 2018 Dolores Redondo 2019 Alessia Gazzola

Recipients of the Premio Campiello

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