Giuseppe Berto (27 December 1914 – 1 November 1978) 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.
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 Prize and Campiello Prize
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