Vitaliano Trevisan
# 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 Premio Lo Straniero [it]. 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)
