Toth Database - Cinema
Andrea Calogero Camilleri
Porto Empedocle on 6 September 1925 / Rome, 17 July 2019
The Father Joseph was Inspector of the port companies who participated in the March on Rome.
By the late ' 40 lives in Rome and from 1968 he spends a few months a year in Bagnolo, in the municipality of Santa Fiora in the territory of Monte Amiata in Tuscany, much to receive in September 2014 from this joint nomination of honorary citizen.
He attended the liceo classico Empedocle Agrigento where in 1943 he graduated without taking exams, because of the bombing and the allied landings. Camilleri speaks of a kind of half-circumnavigation of Sicily on foot or on German and Italian trucks under a continuous shooting for which you had to throw himself to the ground, get dirty with dust, blood, fears. He enrolled in ' 44 in literature and philosophy, but never graduated, and subsequently to the PCI. He began writing poems and stories and get a finalist for the Premio Saint Vincent. Between 1949 and 1952, he graduated from the Academy of dramatic art Silvio D'Amico, clenching his friendship with Luigi Vannucchi, Franco Graziosi and Alexander Salih. She continues to write short stories and poems to newspapers like The Socialist Italy and an hour from Palermo, and some of his poems are published in an anthology edited by Ungaretti. In 1958 in Rome at the Teatro dei Satiri enacts endgame, Beckett, then a television version with Adolfo Celi and Renato Rascel. Entering RAI in 1957, has not previously was hired because Communist, and the same year bride Rosetta Of Saito, with whom he has three daughters. From 1958 to 1965 and 1968 to 1970 taught at the Experimental Center of Cinematography in Rome from 1977 to 1997 he holds the Chair of direction at the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of dramatic art '.Get much success with productions RAI, The adventures of Laura Storm, with Lauretta Masiero, and fiction with Lt. Sheridan, starring Ubaldo Lay, but also Investigations of Maigret, starring Gino Cervi, and in ' 68 he directed the teleromanzo Lazarillo. In 1978 he debuted in fiction with the course of things written ten years earlier and published by a Publisher to payment with escrow to sue the Publisher in the titles of TV series based on the book, his hand over his eyes: is a failure. In 1980, he publishes with Garzanti a wisp of smoke, the first in a series of novels set in the fictional town of Vigata straddling the end of the 19th and the beginning of the twentieth century. Thanks to the latter work Camilleri received its first literary prize in Gela. Public in 1984, Sellerio, The forgotten massacre, without success. After twelve years of pause, resume writing, and between 1992 and 1993 Hunting season public and componeda bubble. With the shape of water, in 1994 he published the first detective story with Dexter and the following year the Brewer of Preston. Although accused by critics of being repetitive, his books sell about 60,000 copies, reprinted several times. His books, written between 1995 and 2003, go like hot cakes, while the television series Man, played by Luca Zingaretti, make it a cult. At the end of 2002, accepts the appointment as Artistic Director of the Teatro Comunale Queen Margaret of Racalmuto, opened in February 2003 in the presence of the head of State, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Always publishes with Sellerio, other novels starring Montalbano: in 2004 the patience of the spider, in March 2005 Untitled, in June 2005 The paper Moon. Don't forget the novel il King of Girgenti, set in the 17th century, entirely written in Sicilian interspersed with Spanish. Between 2006 and 2008, publishes five other novels whose protagonist Inspector Montalbano: The August blaze, the wings of the Sphinx, The sandy slope, The potters field, age of the doubt. The 2009 begins with the novel The Seagull's Dance, winner in the same year of the 26th Edition of Cesare Pavese. Everyone at Sellerio in Memory, founded by Leonardo Sciascia. In 2010 in the same necklace out Montalbano's later novels, a treasure hunt and the smile of Angelica, who is accompanied by a third novel, mums, published by Minimun fax. Written together with Carlo Lucarelli in the form "letters" already successfully tested talking Pato's death, the novel was first seen Dexter interact with another investigator literary, Inspector Grace Negro, created by Lucarelli.
In 2008 publishes The grey suit and The Tollbooth, the second of a trilogy of novels, the first of which is the novel Maruzza Musumeci. For the first time, in 2008, publish to the web, the online daily Agrigento News publishes his narrative, rear window, starring always Montalbano. The same year he won the Award Internacional De novela Negra RBA, with an unprecedented in Spanish entitled La muerte de Amalia Sarcedote, released later in Italy under the title The rizzagliata. He also writes novels dedicated to the great painters, for Mondadori The color of the Sun (Caravaggio),Skira La Vucciria ( Guttuso ) and Skira, the novel set in his Agrigento, the sky stolen, Dossier Renoir. For Rizzoli, in 2009, she published the novel Pirandello The triple life of Salina, Sellerio grandson Negus and at Mondadori the blink rate. With Edoardo De Angelis and Franco Battiato, in 2001, works for the song Pang album Salt of Sicily. Also among the artists who collaborate in the album T. C. H. Daniele Silvestri, Camilleri. In the same year he was awarded the The Campiello Foundation Award. Until now Camilleri has been translated into at least 120 languages (including English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian, Irish, Russian, Hungarian, Polish, Greek, Japanese, Hebrew, Croatian ) and has sold more than 10 million copies. Her particular language, is a combined between Italian and Sicilian. After an initial period devoted to poetry, is interested in the theater until, having decided to represent his plays in his own words, he realized that they cannot speak Italian in works of great scope and so he ceased to write in ways that prose. His language was formed when, seeing his dying father, he wanted to tell a story that he would like to publish but that wasn't able to compose in Italian: it was his father to suggest they write it as he had told him. But wanting to be understood by everyone, he preferred to adopt a balanced language, where the dialect terms had the same quality and significance, the same resonance of the Italian ones. She starred in the movies of Rocco Mortelliti, the strategy of the mask. Even has a cameo appearance in December 2013, 2994 number 16 of Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse and the promise of the cat. Story set in Sicily where Mickey Mouse helps the Commissioner Topalbano. On 29 January 2009 decides to enter politics expected to mark the "party without party" along with Antonio Di Pietro and Paolo Flores D'arcais to take part in the European elections of 2009 but on 12 March of that year it was announced the lack of agreement among the three. In 2013, along with other celebrities launches a collection of signature with the help of Micro Mega with the intention of not joining the Senate Silvio Berlusconi for a matter of conflict of interest by law 361 of 1957, recovering to more the initiative already in 1994 and in 1996 by another Committee of characters and concluded with the unfavourable opinion of the election of the Chamber of Deputies. On 5 June 2013, during the presentation in a television program about his book, how I feel, expressed some of his remarks on Italian political establishment; his opposition to the Government, and to the re-election of the head of State Giorgio Napolitano. Expressed its support for the Tsipras list for the European elections of 2014, only to withdraw it to internal controversies.
Books
1959/ The permanent theatres in Italy (1898-1919)
1978/ The course of things
1980/ A wisp of smoke
1984/ The Forgotten Massacre
1992/ The hunting season
1993/ The Bull of componenda
1995/ The Brewer of Preston
1995/ The Fly Game
1995/ The granting of the phone
1999/ The horse's move
2000/ The disappearance of Pato
2000/ Son's Biography Changed
2000/ Tales of sunset
2001/ Daily Stories
2001/ Drops of Sicily
2001/ The King of Girgenti
2001/ The words told. Small dictionary of terms plays
2002/ Noah's umbrella. Memories and conversations on theatre
2002/ The Palm Line. Saverio Lodato fa tell Andrea Camilleri
2002/ Commissioner's investigations Collura
2003/ Macallè's grip
2004/ Novels and civilians
2005/ Untitled
2005/ Medallion
2005/ The Devil. Tempter. In love
2005/ Too many misunderstandings, Crimes
2006/ Pension Eva
2006/ I'll tell you Montalbano. Interviews,
2007/ Pages of Luigi Pirandello,
2007/ The colour of the Sun
2007/ The sheep and the Shepherd
2007/ The novella by Antonello di Palermo. A story that could not enter the Decameron
2007/ You do not know. Friends, enemies, the mafia, the world in 2007, Bernardo Provenzano's pizzini
2007 / Maruzza Musumeci
2007 / The eye and memory: Porto Empedocle
2008/ The grey suit
2008/ The signalman
2008/ The Vucciria
2008/ La muerte de Amalia Sacerdote
2008/ triple life of Salina
2009/ One Saturday, with friends
2009/ The rattle
2009/ The man is strong, in Article 1. Stories about work
2009/ The sky stole. Renoir
2009/ The rizzagliata
2009 / Italian winter. 2008 – 2009 angrily Chronicles
2009 / An Honorable Sicilian. The parliamentary interpellations by Leonardo Sciascia
2009 / Troppu trafficu ppi members
2010/ The granddaughter of Negus
2010/ The blink rate
2010/ Our head. 2009 – 2010 angrily, Chronicles
2010/ The currency of Akragas
2011/ Gran Circo Taddei and other stories of Vigàta
2011/ The Angels Sect
2011/ The plaque
2011/ Ghosts
2011/ The judge Surra, Judges
2012/ The devil, certainly
2012/ The Queen of Pomerania and other stories of Vigàta
2012/ Inside the labyrinth
2013/ The prafull
2013/ The revolution of the Moon
2013/ What I think-some things you have inside your head
2013/ Magaria
2013/ The band Lot
2013/ The tales of Nene
2013/ The creature of desire
2014/ Chasing a shadow
2014/ Women
2014/ The report
2015/ The framework of wonders-Written for theatre, radio, music, cinema
2015/ The flying Viking and other love stories to Vigàta
Series of Montalbano
1994/ The shape of water
1996/ The terracotta dog
1996/ The Snack Thief
1997/ The Voice of the Violin
1998/ A month with Montalbano
1999/ Montalbano's arancini
1999/ Fifteen days of Montalbano
1997/ Excursion to Tindari
2001/ The scent of the night
2002/ The fear of Montalbano
2002/ Stories of Montalbano
2003/ The turning point
2004/ The patience of the spider
2004/ The first survey of Montalbano
2005 / Paper Moon
2006/ La vampa d'agosto
2006/ The wings of the Sphinx
2007/ The sandy slope
2008/ The Potter's field
2008/ Inspector Montalbano. The first investigations
2008/ The age of doubt
2008/ Tales of Montalbano
2009/ The Seagull's Dance
2009/ Three more investigations, for il commissario Montalbano, ( Contains: the voice of the violin;Excursion to Tindari; The scent of the night )
2010/ The treasure hunt
2010/ Water in the mouth
2010/ Angelic smile
2010/ The game of mirrors
2011/ Other cases for inspector Montalbano
2012/ A blade of light
2012/ A voice in the night
2012/ Three investigations to Vigàta
2012/ A special dinner, new year's Eve in yellow
2013/ A nest of vipers
2013/ Night of August, in mid-August in yellow
2014/ The pyramid of mud
2014/ Death in the open sea and other surveys of the young Man
2015/ The carousel of trade
2016/ The other end of the line
2016/ The four Christmases of Tridicino
2017/ The safety net
Audiobooks
2002/ Camilleri law Montalbano
2006/ A thread of smoke
2010/ The granddaughter of Negus
Awards
In 2015 the Literary student association "ink" Mouthfuls, the Literary Salon of the Bocconi University of Milan, at the initiative of students, acknowledged the "Dante d'Oro" for the complete works.
In 2014 received in Barcelona the IX Prize Pepe Carvalho, the protagonist of the Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, from whose surname Camilleri drew his Commissioner.
In 2011 he was awarded the Premio Fondazione Il Campiello.
In 2010 he received the Premio letterario Piero Chiara
In 2009 with the book the dance of the gull won the 26th Edition of the literary prize Cesare Pavese
In 2009 he received the halberd of gold for literature prize "city of Trieste".
In 2008 he won the Premio Internacional de Novela Nigra with the crime novel in Spanish La muerte de Amalia Sacerdote.
In 2007 received the ' Premio la Tore Elba, then assigned to Vitali, sea, Cazzullo and Nava, among others.
In 2003 he received the Premio Vittorio De Sica in the culture section; on 20 January of that year had already obtained the Premio letterario Racalmare Leonardo Sciascia throughout his literary production.
In 1997 with the book Il cane di terracotta won the 11th edition of the literary award. Its numerous literary works have made him deserving also of several honorary degrees.
Freebies
Argentine writer Carlos Salem has paid tribute to fellow Sicilian calling "Andres Camillèr" a character of his novel Naked is death.
In 2014 is sent on Rai 1 a documentary film about the life of writer named Andrea Camilleri, the master without rules.