Vitaliano Trevisan


Vitaliano Trevisan was an Italian writer, playwright, and actor.

Life and career

After having done different jobs, including surveyor, laborer and ice cream man, Trevisan debuted as a writer in the late 1990s and had breakthrough with the novel I quindicimila passi, which won the Campiello Europa Award and the. In the following years he also had a busy career as a playwright, and among his major stage works there were Il lavoro rende liberi staged by Toni Servillo and Giulietta, an adaptation of a short story of Federico Fellini. He was also active in television and cinema, notably collaborating with Matteo Garrone as a screenwriter and an actor in First Love.

Death

Trevisan died in Crespadoro on 7 January 2022, at the age of 61. His death, apparently caused by a medicine overdose, was ruled as a suicide. He left a suicide note, in which he wrote among other things "I am exhausted and I can't take it anymore", and "nobody must feel responsible as nobody could have done anything".

Publications

Un mondo meraviglioso Trio senza pianoforte I quindicimila passi. Un resoconto Standards vol.1° Un mondo meraviglioso. Uno standard Shorts Wordstar. Trilogia alla memoria Il lavoro rende liberi Oscillazioni Note sui sillabari 3 drammi brevi Il ponte. Un crollo Madre con cuscino Grotteschi e arabeschi Due monologhi Tristissimi giardini Una notte in Tunisia
  • ''Works''

Selected filmography