In 1992, after a long pause of 12 years, Camilleri once more took up novel writing. Neither of these works enjoyed any significant amount of popularity. This was followed by Un Filo di Fumo ("A Thread of Smoke") in 1980. In 1978 Camilleri wrote his first novel Il Corso Delle Cose ("The Way Things Go"). In 1977 he returned to the Academy of Dramatic Arts, holding the chair of Film Direction and occupying it for 20 years. With RAI, Camilleri worked on several TV productions, such as Le inchieste del commissario Maigret with Gino Cervi. His most famous works, the Montalbano series, exhibit many Pirandellian elements: for example, the wild olive tree that helps Montalbano think is on stage in his late work The Giants of the Mountain. His parents knew and reportedly were "distant friends" of Pirandello, as he relates in his essay on Pirandello, Biography of the Changed Son. Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti, Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Palermo, but did not complete his degree during that time he published poems and short stories.įrom 1948 to 1950 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. Andrea Calogero Camilleri ( Italian pronunciation: 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019) was an Italian writer.
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