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Andrea Camilleri

Born

in Porto Empedocle, Italy

September 06, 1925

Died

July 17, 2019

Website

http://www.vigata.org

Genre

Mystery, Literary Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

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Andrea Camilleri was an Italian writer. He is considered one of the greatest Italian writers of both 20th and 21st centuries.

Originally from Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Camilleri began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories. Around this time he joined the Italian Communist Party.

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. As a matter of fact, his parents knew Pirandello and were even distant friends, as he tells in his essay on Pirandello "Biography of the changed son". His most famous works, t ...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 237,128 ratings · 18,928 reviews · 475 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1) by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator) 3.74 avg rating — 25,795 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Terra-Cotta Dog (Inspector Montalbano, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 14,215 ratings — published 1996 — 122 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Snack Thief (Inspector Montalbano, #3) by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator) 4.07 avg rating — 10,907 ratings — published 1996 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano, #4) by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 10,477 ratings — published 1997 — 103 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Excursion to Tindari (Inspector Montalbano, #5) by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 8,955 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Smell of the Night (Inspector Montalbano, #6) by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 7,758 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rounding the Mark (Inspector Montalbano, #7) by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli 4.09 avg rating — 7,256 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Patience of the Spider (Inspector Montalbano, #8) by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 7,087 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	August Heat (Inspector Montalbano, #10) by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 7,066 ratings — published 2006 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Paper Moon (Inspector Montalbano, #9) by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator) 4.02 avg rating — 6,888 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Andrea Camilleri

Commissario Montalbano (28 books)
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Andrea Camilleri,

Stephen Sartarelli

3.95 avg rating — 199,877 ratings

Trilogía mítica (3 books)
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Andrea Camilleri

3.93 avg rating — 1,397 ratings

Quotes by Andrea Camilleri (?)

“Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.”
― Andrea Camilleri, The Snack Thief

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“The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.”
― Andrea Camilleri, The Terra-Cotta Dog

tags: haunting, memory

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“What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all. It was a pleasure just to know the other one was there.”
― Andrea Camilleri, Voice of the Violin

tags: friendship

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December 2020 Mystery by Location (Italy) Poll

We ask that you only vote if you are planning on participating in our discussion should your choice win.

Which Italian Mystery selection would you like to read in December?

The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri

11 votes, 64.7%

A Season for the Dead by David Hewson

6 votes, 35.3%

17 total votes

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