Giuseppe Berto
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 in Camp Hereford from 1943 to 1946.
Giuseppe Berto

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- Name
- Giuseppe Berto
- Born
- 27 December 1914
- Birthplace
- Mogliano Veneto, Italy
- Died
- 1 November 1978
- Place of death
- Rome, Italy
- Occupation
- Novelist and screenwriter
- Nationality
- Italy · Kingdom of Italy
- Education
- Liceo Classico A. Canova · University of Padua
- Honours
- Viareggio Prize · Crotone Prize · Bancarella Literary Prize · Premio Campiello
- Languages
- Italian
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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 in Camp Hereford from 1943 to 1946.
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Key facts
• Name — Giuseppe Berto • Born — 27 December 1914 • Birthplace — Mogliano Veneto, Italy • Died — 1 November 1978 • Place of death — Rome, Italy • Occupation — Novelist and screenwriter • Years Active — 1947–1978
Selected works
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
Selected filmography
• Eleonora Duse (1947) • La tua donna (1954) • The Wanderers (1956)
Identity
Identity
Giuseppe Berto is recorded as having received Viareggio Prize, Crotone Prize and Bancarella Literary Prize.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1978
Giuseppe Berto died at Rome.
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Mogliano Veneto.
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Rome.
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Screenwriter
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)
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1130219: Giuseppe Berto
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1601128-4, Associazione Amici di Giuseppe Berto.
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- “Giuseppe Berto”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Giuseppe Berto con Gabriella Andreini e Pasquale Festa Campanile.
- 2.Nel libro Il male oscuro, pubblicato dalla BUR (2ª edizione 2006), con prefazione di Carlo Emilio Gadda, a pag. XVIII della biografia acclusa, viene erroneamente attribuita a Giuseppe Berto l'assegnazione del Premio Strega nel 1948 per Il cielo è rosso. In realtà Berto partecipò al Premio Strega nel 1948 ma col libro Le opere di Dio. Il premio andò tuttavia a Vincenzo Cardarelli per Villa Tarantola. L'opera Il cielo è rosso, pubblicata per prima volta da Longanesi nel 1946, fu premiata nel 1948 dal "Premio Firenze per la Letteratura".
- 3.Cita web http://www.centrofirenzeuropa.it/ Sito del Premio Firenze per la letteratura
- 4.C. Stajano, Berto, tutte le baruffe di un escluso, Corriere della Sera, 6 novembre 1999.
- 5.Nicola Perrotti (fondatore della rivista "Psiche") sul sito della "Società Psicoanalitica Italiana"
- 6.Premio letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci. premioletterarioviareggiorepaci.it.
- 7.Premio Campiello, opere premiate nelle precedenti edizioni. premiocampiello.org.
- 8.Corrado. Berto. La nuova Italia. 1970.
- 9.cita D.Biagi p. 221 .
- 10.Premi Amelia 1965-2005, a cura della "Tavola all'Amelia", prefazione di Sergio Perosa, Venezia-Mestre, 2006, pp. 54-57.
- 11.Pier Paolo Segneri, Eugene Ionesco il libertario anti egemonia, Secolo d'Italia, 13 ottobre 2009, pag. 8/9.
- 12.Albo d'oro Premio Bancarella. premiobancarella.it.
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q1130219: Giuseppe BertoWikimedia Foundation
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1601128-4, Associazione Amici di Giuseppe Berto.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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