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)

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1960 births
2022 deaths
2022 suicides
People from the Province of Vicenza
Italian dramatists and playwrights
Italian film actors
Italian screenwriters
Italian television actors
Italian stage actors
Drug-related suicides in Italy