![]() ![]() With RAI, Camilleri worked on several TV productions, such as Inspector Maigret with Gino Cervi. His most famous works, the Montalbano series show 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" 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". Around this time he joined the Italian Communist Party.įrom 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. ![]() Originally from Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Camilleri began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories. He is considered one of the greatest Italian writers of both 20th and 21st centuries. Andrea Camilleri (born septemin Porto Empedocle) was an Italian writer. ![]()
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