Giuseppe Berto
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Giuseppe Berto was an Italian writer
. He is mostly known for his novels, among which Il cielo è rosso (The Sky Is Red) and Il male oscuro; he also wrote for cinema.
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
. He is mostly known for his novels, among which Il cielo è rosso (The Sky Is Red) and Il male oscuro; he also wrote for cinema.
Selected works
- Il cielo è rosso, a novel written in a prisony camp during WWII and published in 1948 (translated as The Sky Is Red by Angus Davidson)
- Il male oscuro (literally, "The dark illness") a "novel of neurosis and psychoanalysis", which won him in 1964 both Viareggio PrizeViareggio PrizeThe Viareggio Literary Prize is a prestigious Italian literary award, whose first edition was in 1930, and is named after the Tuscan city of Viareggio...
and Campiello PrizePremio CampielloThe Premio Campiello is an annual Italian literary prize.A Jury of Literary Experts identifies books published during the year and, in a public hearing, selects five of those as finalists. These books are called il Premio Selezione Campiello... - La Passione secondo noi stessi (literally, "Passion according ourselves"), a 1972 play
- La gloria (lit., "The glory"), a novel about Judas's mission of betraying Jesus