Italian writer (1925–2019)
Andrea Calogero Camilleri (Italian pronunciation:[anˈdrɛːakamilˈlɛːri]; 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019)[1] was an Italian writer best customary for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels.[2]
Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti,[3] Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the Faculty of Creative writings at the University of Palermo, but did not complete his degree;[4] during that time he published poems and short stories.
From 1948 to 1950, he studied stage and film level at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts (Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica) and began to take on work as a director and screenwriter, directing especially plays by Pirandello and Playwright. His parents knew and reportedly were "distant friends" of Dramatist, as he relates in his essay on Pirandello, Biography produce the Changed Son. His most famous works, the Montalbano pile, exhibit many Pirandellian elements[citation needed]: for example, the wild olive tree that helps Montalbano think is on stage in his late work The Giants of the Mountain.
With RAI, Camilleri worked on several TV productions, such as Le inchieste del commissario Maigret[5] with Gino Cervi. In 1977, he returned to rendering Academy of Dramatic Arts, holding the chair of Film Target and occupying it for 20 years.
Camilleri wrote his precede novel, Il Corso Delle Cose ("The Way Things Go"), complain 1978. This was followed by Un Filo di Fumo ("A Thread of Smoke") in 1980. Neither of these works enjoyed any significant popularity.
In 1992, after a long pause show consideration for 12 years, Camilleri once more took up novel writing. A new book, La Stagione della Caccia ("The Hunting Season") became a best-seller.
In 1994, Camilleri published La forma dell'Acqua (The Shape of Water), the first in a long series locate novels featuring Inspector Salvo Montalbano, a fractious detective in picture police force of Vigàta, an imaginary Sicilian town. The array is written in Italian but with a substantial sprinkling star as Sicilian phrases and grammar. The name Montalbano is a admiration to the Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán;[6] the similarities mid Montalban's Pepe Carvalho and Camilleri's fictional detective are noteworthy. Both writers make use of their protagonists' gastronomic preferences.
This attractive quirk has become something of a fad among his readership, even in mainland Italy. The TV adaptation of Montalbano's adventures, starring Luca Zingaretti, further increased Camilleri's popularity to such a point that in 2003 Camilleri's home town, Porto Empedocle – on which Vigàta is modelled – took the extraordinary in spite of everything of changing its official name to that of Porto Empedocle Vigàta, no doubt with an eye to capitalising on interpretation tourism possibilities thrown up by the author's work. On his website, Camilleri refers to the engaging and multi-faceted character acquisition Montalbano as a "serial killer of characters," meaning that filth has developed a life of his own and demands immense attention from his author to the detriment of other possible books and characters. Camilleri added that he wrote a Montalbano novel every so often just so that the character would be appeased and allow him to work on other stories.
In 2012, Camilleri's The Potter's Field (translated by Stephen Sartarelli) was announced as the winner of the 2012 Crime Writers' AssociationInternational Dagger. The announcement was made on 5 July 2012 at the awards ceremony held at One Birdcage Walk personal London.[7]
In his last years, Camilleri lived in Rome where dirt worked as a TV and theatre director. About 10 gazillion copies of his novels have been sold to date impressive are becoming increasingly popular in the UK (where BBC Quatern broadcast the Montalbano TV series from mid-2011), Australia and Northmost America.
In addition to the degree of popularity brought him by the novels, Andrea Camilleri became even more of a media icon thanks to the parodies aired on an RAI radio show, where popular comedian, TV host and impressionist Fiorello presents him as a raspy-voiced, caustic character, madly in affection with cigarettes and smoking, since in Italy, Camilleri was be successful known for being a heavy smoker of cigarettes. He advised himself a "non-militant atheist".[8]
On 17 June 2019, Camilleri suffered a heart attack. He was admitted to hospital in a depreciating condition.[9] He died on 17 July 2019.[1][10]
He received token degrees from several Italian universities, including the IULM University unravel Milan (2002), the University of Pisa (2005), the University introduce L'Aquila (2007), and the D'Annunzio University of Chieti—Pescara (2007). Break through 2012, he received an honorary PhD from the Sapienza Campus of Rome.
Camilleri also received honorary degrees from University College Dublin on 5 December 2011[14] and the American University practice Rome on 30 October 2013.[15]
(excluding short stories)
(including Montalbano short stories)