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Andrea Camilleri

Andrea Camilleri is an Italian writer. Originally from Sicily, Camilleri began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories. From 1948 to 1950 Camilleri studied stage and film direction at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts and began to take on work as a director and screenwriter, directing especially plays by Pirandello and Beckett. Camilleri also 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 Film 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. 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. Camilleri now lives in Rome where he works 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, Australia and North America. - wikipedia

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Italian writer (1925–2019)

Born 6 September 1925
Died 17 July 2019

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  • Cover of: Die Stimme der Violine. Commissario Montalbanos löst seinen vierten Fall.

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  • Cover of: La linea della palma: Saverio Lodato fa raccontare Andrea Camilleri.

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Italian writer (1925–2019)

Born 6 September 1925
Died 17 July 2019

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Fiction, Police, Sicily (italy), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Salvo Montalbano (Fictitious character), Large type books, Romance literature, Italy, fiction, History, Italian Detective and mystery stories, Murder, Fiction, crime, Italian Authors, Translations into English, Crime, fiction, Investigation, Italian fiction, Interviews, Suspense, Detective and mystery stories, Belletristische Darstellung, Biography, Mafia, Mystery

Places

Italy, Sicily (Italy), Sicily, Sizilien, Italie, Sicile (Italie), Italien, Messina (Italy), Pantelleria Island (Italy), Porto Empedocle, Porto Empedocle (Italy), Raffadali (Italy), Sicile, Siclly, Tunesia, a fictional Siciy, an imaginary Sicily, imaginary Sicily

People

Andrea Camilleri, Salvo Montalbano (Fictitious character), Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), Renato Guttuso (1911-1987), Angelo Canevari, Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Bernardo Provenzano (1933-), Edoardo Persico (1900-1936), Ghrane Sollassié Mbassa, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Leonardo Sciascia, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980)

Time

20th century, 21st century, 19th century, the early 21st century, 15th-18th centuries, 1815-1870, 1870-1945, 1922-1945, 1976-, Geschichte 1875, Geschichte 1941, Revolution of 1848, late 2010s, the 1990s, the early 2000s

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Alternative names

  • Andréa Camilleri
  • camilleri andrea
  • ANDREA CAMILLERI
  • Andrea Camilleri,Andrea Camilleri
  • CAMILLERI,ANDREA
  • Camilleri Andrea

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April 23, 2025 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
August 16, 2020 Edited by Doug Adam Date of Death
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
February 26, 2011 Edited by 82.56.162.136 Added new photo