Vitaliano Trevisan

Vitaliano Trevisan
Trevisan in 2004
Born(1960-12-12)12 December 1960
Sandrigo, Province of Vicenza, Italy
Died7 January 2022(2022-01-07) (aged 61)
Crespadoro, Province of Vicenza, Italy
Occupation(s)writer, playwright and actor

Vitaliano Trevisan (12 December 1960 – 7 January 2022) 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 ("The fifteen thousand steps"), which won the Campiello Europa Award and the Premio Lo Straniero [it].[1][2] 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 ("Work sets you free") staged by Toni Servillo and Giulietta, an adaptation of a short story of Federico Fellini.[1][2] He was also active in television and cinema, notably collaborating with Matteo Garrone as a screenwriter and an actor in First Love.[1]

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".[3]

Publications

  • Un mondo meraviglioso (1997)
  • Trio senza pianoforte (1998)
  • I quindicimila passi. Un resoconto (2002)
  • Standards vol.1° (2002)
  • Un mondo meraviglioso. Uno standard (2003)
  • Shorts (2004)
  • Wordstar(s). Trilogia alla memoria (2004)
  • Il lavoro rende liberi (2005)
  • Oscillazioni (2006)
  • Note sui sillabari (2007)
  • 3 drammi brevi (2008)
  • Il ponte. Un crollo (2008)
  • Madre con cuscino (2009)
  • Grotteschi e arabeschi (2009)
  • Due monologhi (2009)
  • Tristissimi giardini (2010)
  • Una notte in Tunisia (2011)
  • Works (2016)

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c Beretta, Alessandro (1 July 2022). "Morto Vitaliano Trevisan. Gli ultimi tulipani (neri) dello scrittore". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b "È morto lo scrittore Vitaliano Trevisan". La Repubblica (in Italian). 7 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  3. ^ Andrea Priante (9 January 2022). "Vitaliano Trevisan, il biglietto: "Sono stanco, nessuno si senta responsabile"". Corriere del Veneto (in Italian). Retrieved 15 January 2022.


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