Cannabaceae

Giuseppe Berto
Born(1914-12-27)27 December 1914
Died1 November 1978(1978-11-01) (aged 63)
Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)Novelist and screenwriter
Years active1947–1978

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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Screenwriter[edit]

Partial list of screenplays written by Berto:

References[edit]

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

External links[edit]


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