Edicions 62 andrea camilleri biography

Originally from Porto Empedocle , Girgenti , [ 3 ] Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Palermo , but did not complete his degree; [ 4 ] during that time he published poems and short stories. From to , 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 [ citation needed ] : for example, the wild olive tree that helps Montalbano think is on stage in his late work The Giants of the Mountain.

In , he returned to the Academy of Dramatic Arts, holding the chair of Film Direction and occupying it for 20 years. Neither of these works enjoyed any significant popularity. In , after a long pause of 12 years, Camilleri once more took up novel writing.

Una pluja impròpia de Sicília té paralitzades les obres de la nova conducció d’aigua de Vigata.

The series is written in Italian but with a substantial sprinkling of Sicilian phrases and grammar. 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. 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.

Andrea Camilleri (Porto Empedocle, – Roma, ), director teatral i guionista, es va iniciar en el món literari amb muntatges d’obres de Pirandello, Ionesco, T. S. Eliot i Beckett, a més Missing: biography.

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 his last years, Camilleri lived in Rome where he worked as a TV and theatre director. 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". On 17 June , Camilleri suffered a heart attack.