Giuseppe Berto


Giuseppe Berto was an Italian writer and screenwriter He is mostly known for his novels The Sky Is Red and Incubus.
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
  • Opere di Dio short stories, published in 1948
  • Il brigante a novel, published in 1951
  • Il male oscuro a "novel of neurosis and psychoanalysis", which in 1964 won him the Viareggio Prize and the Campiello Prize
  • La cosa buffa a novel, published in 1966
  • Anonimo Veneziano a novel, published in 1971
  • La Passione secondo noi stessi, a 1972 play
  • La gloria a novel, published in 1978, about Judas's betrayal of Jesus

    Selected filmography

  • Eleonora Duse
  • La tua donna
  • ''The Wanderers''

    Screenwriter

Partial list of screenplays written by Berto: