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Biography
Recognitions
Honorary Degrees
Bibliography
Inspector Salvo Montalbano
Other
References
External links
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
Inspector Montalbano, a fractious Sicilian 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; the similarities between Montalban's Pepe Carvalho and Camilleri's fictional detective are remarkable.
Both writers make great play of their protagonists' gastronomic preferences.
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 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 demise of other potential books and different
personages. Camilleri added that he writes a Montalbano novel every so often just so that the character will 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 aW
lk in
London.[4]
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 (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, in recent months Andrea Camilleri has become 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 is well known for being
[5]
a heavy smoker of cigarettes. He considers himself a "non-militant atheist".
Recognitions
Honorary Degrees
He received a number of honorary degrees from several Italian universities, among which the IULM University of Milan (2002), the
University of Pisa (2005), the University of L'Aquila (2007), the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara (2007). In 2012 he
received an honorary PhD from theSapienza University of Rome.
Camilleri has also received honorary degrees from UCD (University College Dublin) on 5 December 2011[7] and the American
University of Rome on 30 October 2013.[8]
Bibliography
Other
(including Montalbano's short stories)
References
1. "Andrea Camilleri nell'Enciclopedia Treccani" (http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/andrea-camilleri/). Treccani.it.
Retrieved 22 January 2013.
2. "Andrea Camilleri Libri - I libri dell'autore: Andrea Camilleri - Libreria Universitaria"
(http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/li
bri-autore_camilleri+andrea-andrea_camilleri.htm) . www.libreriauniversitaria.it. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
3. Rinaldi, Lucia (2012). Andrea Camilleri: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction(http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.p
hp?id=978-0-7864-4670-4). McFarland. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-7864-4670-4.
4. Cf. CWA's website page "CWA International Dagger 2012 Winner"(http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2012/internatio
nal.html) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20120704131920/http://www
.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2012/internation
al.html) 4 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine..
5. "Interview to Infomed" (http://www.infomedi.it/intervista_camilleri.htm). Infomedi.it. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
6. "Scottish author wins lucrative crime award"(https://web.archive.org/web/20131213120156/http://www .businessandl
eadership.com/marketing/item/15570-scottish-author-wins-lucrat) . Business and Leadership. 4 September 2009.
Archived from the original (http://www.businessandleadership.com/marketing/item/15570-scottish-author-wins-lucrat)
on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
7. "UCD honorary degrees for Joseph O'Connor , Andrea Camilleri, Mary Gordon, and Olivia O'Leary"(http://www.ucd.i
e/news/2011/12DEC11/061211-UCD-honorary-degrees-for-Joseph-O-Connor-Andrea-Camilleri-Mary-Gordon-and-O
livia-O-Leary.html). University College Dublin. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
8. "Maestro Andrea Camilleri Receives AUR Honoris Causa Degree"(https://aur.edu/news/maestro-andrea-camilleri-re
ceives-aur-honoris-causa-degree). The American University of Rome. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
External links
(in Italian) Official website
(in English) Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing
(in English) From Montelusa to Vigata. On the trail of Andrea Camilleri and Inspector Montalbano
(in German) (in English) (in Italian) Andrea Camilleri Reader Website (in German, English, and Italian)
(in Italian) Vigata.org – Camilleri Fans Club
Popham, Peter (7 January 2007)."Andrea Camilleri: Once upon a time in Sicily" . London: The Independent.
Retrieved 2 March 2012.
Bailey, Paul (14 October 2006)."The sage of Sicily". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
Judges by Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli, Giancarlo De Cataldo - Book Review at Upcoming4.me
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