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 at Camp Hereford from 1943 to 1946.

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)