Giuseppe Berto

Giuseppe Berto
Born	(1914-12-27)27 December 1914 Mogliano Veneto, Italy
Died	1 November 1978(1978-11-01) (aged 63) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Writer, 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 Il cielo è rosso (The Sky Is Red) and Il male oscuro.

Selected Works

Il cielo è rosso a novel, published in 1948, about a group of displaced teenagers during WWII (The Sky Is Red – translation by Angus Davidson)
Il male oscuro (The dark illness) a "novel of neurosis and psychoanalysis", which in 1964 won him the Viareggio Prize and the Campiello Prize (not translated in English)
La Passione secondo noi stessi (Passion according ourselves), a 1972 play (not translated in English)
La gloria (The glory), a novel about Judas's mission of betraying Jesus (not translated in English)

Selected filmography

Eleonora Duse (1947)

External links

Giuseppe Berto at the Internet Movie Database

Recipients of the Viareggio Prize

1930s	Anselmo Bucci – Lorenzo Viani (1930) Corrado Tumiati (1931) Antonino 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)

1940s	Silvio Micheli – Umberto Saba (1946) • Antonio Gramsci (1947) • Aldo Palazzeschi – Elsa Morante – Sibilla Aleramo (1948) • Arturo Carlo Jemolo – Renata Viganò (1949)

1950s	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)

1960s	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)

1970s	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)

1980s	Stefano Terra (1980) • Enzo Siciliano (1981) • Primo Levi (1982) • Giuliana Morandini (1983) • Gina Lagorio – Bruno Gentili (1984) • Manlio Cancogni (1985) • Marisa Volpi (1986) • Mario Spinella (1987) • Rosetta Loy (1988) • Salvatore Mannuzzu (1989)

1990s	Luisa Adorno – Cesare Viviani – Maurizio Calvesi (1990) • Antonio Debenedetti (1991) • Luigi Malerba (1992) • Alessandro Baricco (1993) • Antonio Tabucchi (1994) • Maurizio Maggiani – Elio Pagliarani (1995) • Ermanno Rea – Alda Merini (1996) • Claudio Piersanti – Franca Grisoni – Corrado Stajano (1997) • Giorgio Pressburger – Michele Sovente – Carlo Ginzburg (1998) • Ernesto Franco (1999)

2000s	Giorgio van Straten – Sandro Veronesi (2000) • Niccolò Ammaniti – Michele Ranchetti – Giorgio Pestelli (2001) • Fleur Jaeggy – 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) • Edith Bruck – Adriano Prosperi – Ennio Cavalli (2009)

2010s	Nicola Lagioia – Michele Emmer – Pierluigi Cappello (2010) Alessandro Mari – Mario Lavagetto – Gian Mario Villalta (2011) Nicola Gardini – Franco Lo Piparo – Antonella Anedda (2012)

Recipients of the Bancarella Prize

1953–1979	1953 Ernest Hemingway 1954 Giovannino Guareschi 1955 Hervé Le Boterf 1956 Han Suyin 1957 Werner Keller 1958 Boris Pasternak 1959 Heinrich Gerlach 1960 Bonaventura Tecchi 1961 André Schwarz-Bart 1962 Cornelius Ryan 1963 Caccia Dominioni 1964 Giulio Bedeschi 1965 Luigi Preti 1966 Vincenzo Pappalettera 1967 Indro Montanelli 1968 Isaac Bashevis Singer 1969 Peter Colosimo 1970 Oriana Fallaci 1971 Enzo Biagi 1972 Alberto Bevilacqua 1973 Roberto Gervaso 1974 Giuseppe Berto 1975 Susanna Agnelli 1976 Carlo Cassola 1977 Giorgio Saviane 1978 Alex Haley 1979 Massimo Grillandi

1980–1999	1980 Maurice Denuziere 1981 Sergio Zavoli 1982 Gary Jennings 1983 Renato Barneschi 1984 Luciano De Crescenzo 1985 Giulio Andreotti 1986 Pasquale Festa Campanile 1987 Enzo Biagi 1988 Cesare Marchi 1989 Umberto Eco 1990 Vittorio Sgarbi 1991 Antonio Spinosa 1992 Alberto Bevilacqua 1993 Carmen Covito 1994 John Grisham 1995 Jostein Gaarder 1996 Stefano Zecchi 1997 Giampaolo Pansa 1998 Paco Ignacio Taibo 1999 Ken Follett

2000–2019	2000 Michael Connelly 2001 Andrea Camilleri 2002 Federico Audisio 2003 Alessandra Appiano 2004 Bruno Vespa 2005 Gianrico Carofiglio 2006 Andrea Vitali 2007 Frank Schätzing 2008 Valerio Massimo Manfredi 2009 Donato Carrisi 2010 Elizabeth Strout 2011 Mauro Corona 2012 Marcello Simoni 2013 Anna Premoli 2014 Michela Marzano

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