Andrea Camilleri was an Italian writer best known for his crime novels about the Sicilian police inspector Salvo Montalbano. Born in 1925, he wrote until close to the end of his life and died in 2019. He came from Porto Empedocle in Sicily, began university studies at Palermo without finishing, and from 1948 to 1950 studied stage and film direction at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome. He worked as a director and screenwriter, directing especially plays by Pirandello and Beckett.
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was an Italian writer best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels
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Andrea Calogero Camilleri (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛːa kamilˈlɛːri]; 6 September 1925
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17 July 2019) was an Italian writer best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels.
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