Andrea Camilleri(1925-2019)
- Writer
- Director
- Production Manager
Born in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Italy in 1925 he began to work as
stage-manager in 1942. After that he directed more than a hundred works
of Luigi Pirandello, Samuel Beckett (which he introduced to Italy for the first time in
1958), and many other authors. In the sixties and seventies, he worked
for Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) and he was production manager for a
long series of TV Movies and Miniseries based on the novels of Georges Simenon
and on an original character, Lt. Sheridan, created by Mario Casacci and
Alberto Ciambricco. In 1978 he wrote his first novel. Then in 1994 he published
his first mystery in which appeared the character Salvo Montalbano,
based on Jules Maigret, which became a bestseller. Its title was _Forma
dell'acqua, La (2000) (TV)_ and later many TV Movies were based on his
works. He is married, has three daughters and four grandchildren. He
lives in Rome.
