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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 Il cielo è rosso (The Sky Is Red) and Il male oscuro.

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

He was a prisoner of the Hereford Prisoner of War Camp from 1943 to 1946.[1]

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

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

References

External links

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

На других языках

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- [en] Giuseppe Berto

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[ru] Берто, Джузеппе

Джузеппе Берто (итал. Giuseppe Berto; 27 декабря 1914 (1914-12-27), Мольяно-Венето —2 ноября 1978, Рим) — итальянский прозаик, драматург и сценарист.

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