Preface to La forme de l’eau, Paris: Fleuve Noir, 1998. Lo spazio nei romanzi e racconti polizieschi di Andrea Camilleri. Doctoral dissertation, Masarykova Univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, 2012. Diversity, Otherness, and Pluralism in Italian Literature, Cinema, Language, and Pedagogy. “The Self as the Other in Andrea Camilleri’s Detective Fiction”. Textes et contextes de l’immigration / Textes und contexte der Migration. Le definizioni dell’alterità nei romanzi polizieschi di Andrea Camilleri”. “Migranti ed immigrati: i nuovi stereotipi linguistici. New Brunswick : Rutgers University-Graduate School, 2010. Denouncement, engagement and dialect: the Sicilian mystery novels of Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea Camilleri. Linguæ & Rivista di lingue e culture moderne 12.1 (2013): 27-34. “La sicilianità di Camilleri: un surplus di identità”. The exceptional transnational success of Camilleri’s cycle on Montalbano, coupled with the author’s familiarity with the television medium, paved the way to a television adaptation that by 2019 had been running for 13 seasons, and is today widely recognized as the most important transnational phenomenon of Italian television of all times. Camilleri’s transcultural dialogue with the history of the European crime genre is quite obvious in the choice of his hero’s own name, a homage to the master of Iberian/Catalan detective fiction, Manuel Vázquez Montálban. In this role he served as a supervisor of a couple of detective television series, including a most memorable adaptation of Simenon’s Maigret novels, with Gino Cervi in the leading role. Most notably, during the 1960s, he had served as executive producer at the Italian public broadcasting service (RAI). “Montalbano represents the average Italian, who has some virtues and some defects, but who essentially goes through life well,” Camilleri said, venturing that “maybe Italians feel themselves represented” in the character, made all the more endearing with his foibles.In 1994, when Andrea Camilleri (who was then 69) published the first instalment of what was to become the most popular product of Italian seriality across the world, he was an experienced writer and television producer, with a particularly significant experience in the adaptation of crime fiction. In an interview a few years ago with state TV, Camilleri explained Montalbano’s appeal. Memories of Sicily Italian author Andrea Camilleri with actor Luca Zingaretti in Rome (Photo: AP Sandro Pace) One of his final works “ Esercizi di memoria” ( Memory Exercises), was published in 2017 and consists of 23 stories, essentially recollections from his life, which he dictated over the course of 23 days in 2016.
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The first book in the Montalbano series “La forma dell’acqua” ( The shape of water), was published in 1994, when the author was 69. His position at the top of the book sales charts in Italy – Camilleri often had several books high in the rankings in the same week – was even more remarkable because the author sprinkled many of his works with words that many Italians are not familiar with.Īmong his works are a fictionalised biography of Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello, who was born not far from Camilleri’s hometown, and a dark novel about a sexually abused Sicilian boy’s childhood during Fascism.īest-selling fame came late in life for Camilleri. He's also trying to work things out with Livia, but has better luck unraveling the mystery of the butterfly tattoo on the shoulder of the unfortunate victim. The Italian actor who played Montalbano in every episode, Luca Zingaretti, wrote on Instagram: “Farewell maestro and friend.” Best-selling novelist Montalbano investigates a local church organization in connection with the murder of a young Eastern European immigrant.