Andrea Camilleri

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Andrea Calogero Camilleri (Template:IPA; 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019)<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> was an Italian writer best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Biography

Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti,<ref>Agrigento since 1927</ref> Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Palermo, but did not complete his degree;<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> during that time he published poems and short stories.

From 1948 to 1950, he studied stage and film direction 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 Beckett. His parents knew and reportedly were "distant friends" of Pirandello, as he relates in his essay on Pirandello, Biography of the Changed Son. His most famous works, the Montalbano series, exhibit many Pirandellian elements:Template: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<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> with Gino Cervi. In 1977, he returned to the Academy of Dramatic Arts, holding the chair of Film Direction and occupying it for 20 years.

Camilleri wrote his first novel, Il Corso Delle Cose ("The Way Things Go"), in 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 of 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 of novels featuring Inspector Salvo Montalbano, a fractious detective in the police force of Vigàta, an imaginary Sicilian town. The series is written in Italian but with a substantial sprinkling of Sicilian phrases and grammar. The name Montalbano is a homage to the Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> the similarities between Montalban's Pepe Carvalho and Camilleri's fictional detective are noteworthy. Both writers make use of their protagonists' gastronomic preferences.

This interesting 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 step of changing its official name to that of Porto Empedocle Vigàta, no doubt with an eye to capitalising on the tourism possibilities thrown up by the 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 he has developed a life of his own and demands great attention from his author to the detriment of other potential 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' Association International Dagger. The announcement was made on 5 July 2012 at the awards ceremony held at One Birdcage Walk in London.<ref>Cf. CWA's website page "CWA International Dagger 2012 Winner" Template:Webarchive.</ref>

In his last years, Camilleri lived in Rome where he worked as a TV and theatre director. About 10 million copies of his novels have been sold to date and are becoming increasingly popular in the UK (where BBC Four broadcast the Montalbano TV series from mid-2011), Australia and North 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 love with cigarettes and smoking, since in Italy, Camilleri was well known for being a heavy smoker of cigarettes. He considered himself a "non-militant atheist".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On 17 June 2019, Camilleri suffered a heart attack. He was admitted to hospital in a critical condition.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He died on 17 July 2019.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Recognitions

Honorary degrees

He received honorary degrees from several Italian universities, including the IULM University of Milan (2002), the University of Pisa (2005), the University of L'Aquila (2007), and the D'Annunzio University of Chieti—Pescara (2007). In 2012, he received an honorary PhD from the Sapienza University of Rome.

Camilleri also received honorary degrees from University College Dublin on 5 December 2011<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the American University of Rome on 30 October 2013.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Bibliography

Inspector Salvo Montalbano (1994–2020)

(excluding short stories)

Montalbano Series
Italian title Year of Italian
publication 		Italian
publisher 		Year of English
publication 		English title English publisher
La forma dell'acqua Template:Sort Sellerio Template:Sort The Shape of Water Picador
Il cane di Terracotta Template:Sort Template:Sort The Terracotta Dog
Il ladro di merendine Template:Sort Template:Sort The Snack Thief
La voce del violino Template:Sort Template:Sort The Voice of the Violin
Gita a Tindari Template:Sort Template:Sort Excursion to Tindari
L'odore della notte Template:Sort Template:Sort The Scent of the Night
Il giro di boa Template:Sort Template:Sort Rounding the Mark
La pazienza del ragno Template:Sort Template:Sort The Patience of the Spider
La luna di carta Template:Sort Template:Sort The Paper Moon
La vampa d'agosto Template:Sort Template:Sort August Heat
Le ali della sfinge Template:Sort Template:Sort The Wings of the Sphinx Penguin Books
La pista di sabbia Template:Sort Template:Sort The Track of Sand
Il campo del vasaio Template:Sort Template:Sort The Potter's Field
L'età del dubbio Template:Sort Template:Sort The Age of Doubt
La danza del gabbiano Template:Sort Template:Sort The Dance of the Seagull
La caccia al tesoro Template:Sort Template:Sort Treasure Hunt
Il sorriso di Angelica Template:Sort Template:Sort Angelica's Smile
Il gioco degli specchi Template:Sort Template:Sort Game of Mirrors
Una lama di luce Template:Sort Template:Sort Blade of Light
Una voce di notte Template:Sort Template:Sort A Voice in the Night
Un covo di vipere Template:Sort Template:Sort A Nest of Vipers
La piramide di fango Template:Sort Template:Sort The Pyramid of Mud
La giostra degli scambi Template:Sort Template:Sort The Overnight Kidnapper
L'altro capo del filo Template:Sort Template:Sort The Other End of the Line
La rete di protezione Template:Sort Template:Sort The Safety Net
Il metodo Catalanotti Template:Sort Template:Sort The Sicilian Method
Il cuoco dell'Alcyon Template:Sort Template:Sort The Cook of the Halcyon
Riccardino Template:Sort<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Sort Template:Ill Mantle

Other

(including Montalbano short stories)

  • Le Arancine di Montalbano (1999) Template:ISBN
  • Biografia di un figlio cambiato (2000) Template:ISBN
  • Il birraio di Preston (1995) Template:ISBN
  • La bolla di componenda (1993)
  • La concessione del telefono (1998) Template:ISBN
  • La concessione del telefono: versione teatrale dell'omonimo romanzo (2005) Template:ISBN
  • Il corso delle cose (1978; revised edition, 1998) Template:ISBN
  • Il diavolo: tentatore, innamorato (2005) Template:ISBN
  • Favole del tramonto (2000) Template:ISBN
  • Un filo di fumo (1980)
  • Il gioco della mosca (1995) Template:ISBN
  • Gocce di Sicilia (2001) Template:ISBN (Texts originally published in the Almanacco dell'Altana between 1995 and 2000.)
  • Le inchieste del commissario Collura (2002) Template:ISBN
  • La linea della palma: Saverio Lodato fa raccontare Andrea Camilleri (2002) Template:ISBN
  • Il medaglione (2005) Template:ISBN
  • Un mese con Montalbano (1998) Template:ISBN (Thirty short stories)
  • Montalbano a viva voce (2002) Template:ISBN (Two audio CDs)
  • La mossa del cavallo (1999) Template:ISBN
  • L'ombrello di Noe (2002) Template:ISBN
  • Le parole raccontate: piccolo dizionario dei termini teatrali (2001) Template:ISBN
  • La paura di Montalbano (2002) Template:ISBN (Six short stories)
  • The Fourth Secret (2014), a short story taken from La paura di Montalbano
  • La Pensione Eva: romanzo (2006) Template:ISBN
  • La presa di Macallè (2003) Template:ISBN (Novel in the dialect of Sicily)
  • La prima indagine di Montalbano (2004) Template:ISBN
  • Privo di titolo (2005) Template:ISBN
  • Racconti quotidiani (2001) Template:ISBN
  • Il re di Girgenti (2001) Template:ISBN
  • Romanzi storici e civili (2004) Template:ISBN
  • La scomparsa di Patò: romanzo (2000) Template:ISBN
  • Hunting Season (2014) La stagione della caccia (1992, 1998) Template:ISBN
  • Storie di Montalbano (2002) Template:ISBN
  • La strage dimenticata (1997) Template:ISBN
  • I teatri stabili in Italia (1898–1918) (1959)
  • Teatro (2003)
  • La testa ci fa dire: dialogo con Andrea Camilleri (2000) Template:ISBN
  • Vi racconto Montalbano: interviste (2006) Template:ISBN
  • Il colore del sole (2007)
  • Le pecore ed il pastore (2007)
  • La novella di Antonello da Palermo (2007)
  • Voi non sapete (2007)
  • Maruzza Musumeci (2007)
  • Il tailleur grigio (2008)
  • Il casellante (2008)
  • La muerte de Amalia Sacerdote (2008), La muerte de Amalia Sacerdote (Spanish) Template:ISBN
  • Un sabato, con gli amici (2009)
  • Il sonaglio (2009)
  • La rizzagliata (2009)
  • La tana delle vipere (2009)
  • Il nipote del Negus (2010) Template:ISBN
  • L'intermittenza (2010) Template:ISBN
  • The Revolution of the Moon (2017) La rivoluzione della luna (2013) Template:ISBN
  • Noli me tangere (2016) Template:ISBN
  • Ora dimmi di te (2018) Template:ISBN, Háblame de ti. Carta a Matilda (Spanish) Template:ISBN

References

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