{{Short description|Italian novelist and screenwriter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox person | image = Giuseppe Berto 64.jpg | name = Giuseppe Berto | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|12|27|df=yes}} | birth_place = Mogliano Veneto, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|1978|11|1|1914|12|27|df=yes}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | occupation = 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Giuseppe Berto|url=https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/giuseppe-berto|access-date=14 January 2021|website=Words Without Borders}}</ref>
==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)
== 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)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0078154}} * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160310061820/http://maaboret.com/en/stories/the-girl-goes-to-calabria/ "The girl goes to Calabria"]}} at The Short Story Project.
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