Giuseppe Berto

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

Giuseppe Berto (27 December 1914 – 1 November 1978) was an Italian writer. He is mostly known for his novels, among which Il cielo è rosso (The Sky Is Red) and Il male oscuro; he also wrote for cinema.

[edit] Selected works

Il cielo è rosso, a novel written in a prisony camp during WWII and published in 1948 (translated as The Sky Is Red by Angus Davidson)
Il male oscuro (literally, "The dark illness") a "novel of neurosis and psychoanalysis", which won him in 1964 both Viareggio Prize and Campiello Prize
La Passione secondo noi stessi (literally, "Passion according ourselves"), a 1972 play
La gloria (lit., "The glory"), a novel about Judas's mission of betraying Jesus

[edit] External links

Giuseppe Berto at the Internet Movie Database

Viareggio Prize-winning authors

Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930) · Corrado Tumiati (1931) · Antonio 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) · Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) · Antonio Gramsci (1947) · Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) · Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949) – 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) · Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1960) · Alberto Moravia (1961) · Giorgio Bassani (1962) · Antonio Delfini – Sergio Solmi (1963) · Giuseppe Berto (1964) · Goffredo Parise (1965) · Ottiero Ottieri – Alfonso Gatto (1966) · Raffaello Brignetti (1967) · Libero Bigiaretti (1968) · Fulvio Tomizza (1969) · 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) · Stefano Terra (1980) · Enzo Siciliano (1981) · Primo Levi (1982) · Giuliana Morandini (1983) · Gina Lagorio (1984) · Manlio Cancogni (1985) · Marisa Volpi (1986) · Mario Spinella (1987) · Rosetta Loy (1988) · Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989) · Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) · Antonio Debenedetti (1991) · Luigi Malerba (1992) · Alessandro Baricco (1993) · Antonio Tabucchi (1994) · Maurizio Maggiani (1995) · Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) · Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisone – Corrado Stajano (1997) · Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) · Ernesto Franco (1999) · Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) · Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) · Jaeggy Fleur – 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)

Bancarella Prize winners

Ernest Hemingway (1953) · Giovannino Guareschi (1954) · Hervé Le Boterf (1955) · Hanh Suyn (1956) · Werner Keller (1957) · Boris Pasternak (1958) · Heinrich Gerlac (1959) · Bonaventura Tecchi (1960) · André Schwarz Bart (1961) · Cornelius Ryan (1962) · Caccia Dominioni (1963) · Giulio Bedeschi (1964) · Luigi Preti (1965) · Vincenzo Pappalettera (1966) · Indro Montanelli (1967) · Isaac Bashevis Singer (1968) · Peter Colosimo (1969) · Oriana Fallaci (1970) · Enzo Biagi (1971) · Alberto Bevilacqua (1972) · Roberto Gervaso (1973) · Giuseppe Berto (1974) · Susanna Agnelli (1975) · Carlo Cassola (1976) · Giorgio Saviane (1977) · Alex Haley (1978) · Massimo Grillandi (1979) · Maurice Denuziere (1980) · Sergio Zavoli (1981) · Gary Jennings (1982) · Renato Barneschi (1983) · Luciano De Crescenzo (1984) · Giulio Andreotti (1985) · Pasquale Festa Campanile (1986) · Enzo Biagi (1987) · Cesare Marchi (1988) · Umberto Eco (1989) · Vittorio Sgarbi (1990) · Antonio Spinosa (1991) · Alberto Bevilacqua (1992) · Carmen Covito (1993) · John Grisham (1994) · Jostein Gaarder (1995) · Stefano Zecchi (1996) · Giampaolo Pansa (1997) · Paco Ignacio Taibo (1998) · Ken Follett (1999) · Michael Connelly (2000) · Andrea Camilleri (2001) · Federico Audisio (2002) · Alessandra Appiano (2003) · Bruno Vespa (2004) · Gianrico Carofiglio (2005) · Andrea Vitali (2006) · Frank Schätzing (2007) · Valerio Massimo Manfredi (2008) · Donato Carrisi (2009) · Elizabeth Strout (2010) · Mauro Corona (2011)

Persondata
Name	Berto, Giuseppe
Alternative names
Short description	Writer
Date of birth	1914-12-27
Place of birth	Mogliano Veneto, Italy
Date of death	1978-11-1
Place of death	Rome, Italy