Vitaliano Trevisan

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. 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. 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 (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

 * First Love (2004)
 * Questioni di pelle (2006)
 * Riparo (2006)
 * R.I.S. Roma - Delitti imperfetti (TV-Series, 2009)
 * Once Upon a Time the City of Fools (2010)
 * Things from Another World (2011)
 * Finché c'è prosecco c'è speranza (2017)
 * Il grande passo (2019)
 * Sole (2019)