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Profile of Andrea Camilleri
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Andrea Camilleri |
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6th September 1925 |
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Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Italy |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Andrea Camilleri (Porto Empedocle, Agrigento, 1925) is a Italian writer.
Biography
Originally from Sicily, Camilleri began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories. Around this time he joined the Italian Communist Party.
From 1948 to 1950 Camilleri studied film direction at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, starting to take on work as director and screenwriter.
With RAI, Camilleri worked on several TV productions, such as Inspector Maigret with Gino Cervi. In 1977 he returned to the Academy of Dramatic Arts, holding the chair of Movie Direction, and occupying it for 20 years.
In 1978 Camilleri wrote his first novel Il Corso Delle Cose ("The Way Things Go"). This was followed by Un Filo di Fumo (A Thread of Smoke") in 1980. Neither of these works enjoyed any kind of 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") turned out to be a best-seller.
In 1994 Camilleri published the first in a long series of novels: La forma dell'Acqua (The Shape of Water) featured the character of Salvo Montalbano, a fractious Sicilian detective in the police force of Vigà ta, an imaginary Sicilian town. The series is written in Italian but with a substantial sprinkling of Sicilian phrases and grammar. This feature provides an interesting quirk which has become something of a fad among his readership even in mainland Italy. The TV adaptation of Montalbano's adventures, starring the perfectly-cast Luca Zingaretti, further increased Camilleri's popularity to such a point that in 2003 Camilleri's home town, Porto Empedocle - on which Vigà ta is modelled - took the extraordinary step of changing its official denomination to that of Porto Empedocle Vigà ta, no doubt with an eye to capitalising on the tourism possibilities thrown up by the author's work.
Camilleri now lives in Rome where he works as a TV and theatre director. About 10 million copies of his novels have been sold ro date.
He received an honorary degree from University of Pisa in 2005.
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