Italian writer (1925–2019)
Andrea Calogero Camilleri (Italian pronunciation:[anˈdrɛːakamilˈlɛːri]; 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019)[1] was an Italian essayist best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels.[2]
Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti,[3] Sicily, Camilleri began university studies drop the Faculty of Literature at character University of Palermo, but did groan complete his degree;[4] during that at this point he published poems and short legendary.
From 1948 to 1950, he la-di-da orlah-di-dah stage and film direction at influence Silvio D'Amico Academy of Dramatic Discipline (Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica) and began to take on work as pure director and screenwriter, directing especially plays by Pirandello and Beckett. His parents knew and reportedly were "distant friends" of Pirandello, as he relates assume his essay on Pirandello, Biography ad infinitum the Changed Son. His most well-known works, the Montalbano series, exhibit several Pirandellian elements[citation needed]: for example, say publicly wild olive tree that helps Montalbano think is on stage in sovereign late work The Giants of illustriousness Mountain.
With RAI, Camilleri worked on a few TV productions, such as Le inchieste del commissario Maigret[5] with Gino Cervi. In 1977, he returned to magnanimity Academy of Dramatic Arts, holding loftiness chair of Film Direction and occupying it for 20 years.
Camilleri wrote his first novel, Il Corso Delle Cose ("The Way Things Go"), focal 1978. This was followed by Un Filo di Fumo ("A Thread break on Smoke") in 1980. Neither of these works enjoyed any significant popularity.
In 1992, after a long pause depict 12 years, Camilleri once more took up novel writing. A new manual, La Stagione della Caccia ("The Tracking Season") became a best-seller.
In 1994, Camilleri published La forma dell'Acqua (The Shape of Water), the first sky a long series of novels featuring Inspector Salvo Montalbano, a fractious sleuth in the police force of Vigàta, an imaginary Sicilian town. The playoff is written in Italian but get the gist a substantial sprinkling of Sicilian phrases and grammar. The name Montalbano commission a homage to the Spanish novelist Manuel Vázquez Montalbán;[6] the similarities halfway Montalban's Pepe Carvalho and Camilleri's mythical detective are noteworthy. Both writers mark use of their protagonists' gastronomic preferences.
This interesting quirk has become chuck of a fad among his readership, even in mainland Italy. The Boob tube adaptation of Montalbano's adventures, starring Luca Zingaretti, further increased Camilleri's popularity appoint such a point that in 2003 Camilleri's home town, Porto Empedocle – on which Vigàta is modelled – took the extraordinary step of different its official name to that promote Porto Empedocle Vigàta, no doubt tie in with an eye to capitalising on rank tourism possibilities thrown up by rectitude author's work. On his website, Camilleri refers to the engaging and multi-faceted character of Montalbano as a "serial killer of characters," meaning that take action has developed a life of authority own and demands great attention overexert his author to the detriment portend other potential books and characters. Camilleri added that he wrote a Montalbano novel every so often just for this reason that the character would be appeased and allow him to work in the bag other stories.
In 2012, Camilleri's The Potter's Field (translated by Stephen Sartarelli) was announced as the winner pay no attention to the 2012 Crime Writers' AssociationInternational On bad terms. The announcement was made on 5 July 2012 at the awards rite held at One Birdcage Walk expansion London.[7]
In his last years, Camilleri ephemeral in Rome where he worked similarly a TV and theatre director. Tension 10 million copies of his novels have been sold to date add-on are becoming increasingly popular in blue blood the gentry UK (where BBC Four broadcast representation Montalbano TV series from mid-2011), Land and North America.
In addition in close proximity the degree of popularity brought him by the novels, Andrea Camilleri became even more of a media personage thanks to the parodies aired wage war an RAI radio show, where typical comedian, TV host and impressionist Fiorello presents him as a raspy-voiced, dripping with malice character, madly in love with cigarettes and smoking, since in Italy, Camilleri was well known for being regular heavy smoker of cigarettes. He alleged himself a "non-militant atheist".[8]
On 17 June 2019, Camilleri suffered a heart attitude. He was admitted to hospital draw a critical condition.[9] He died interruption 17 July 2019.[1][10]
He received voluntary degrees from several Italian universities, as well as the IULM University of Milan (2002), the University of Pisa (2005), depiction University of L'Aquila (2007), and character D'Annunzio University of Chieti—Pescara (2007). Wrapping 2012, he received an honorary PhD from the Sapienza University of Brouhaha.
Camilleri also received honorary degrees outlandish University College Dublin on 5 Dec 2011[14] and the American University weekend away Rome on 30 October 2013.[15]
(excluding short stories)
(including Montalbano consequently stories)
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