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  1. In 1978, Camilleri wrote his first novel Il Corso Delle Cose ("The Way Things Go"). This was followed by Un Filo di Fumo ("A Thread of Smoke") in 1980. Neither of these works enjoyed any significant amount of popularity. In 1992, after a long pause of 12 years, Camilleri once more took up novel writing.

  2. Andrea Camilleri was born in 1925 to harbor official Giuseppe and his wife Carmelina Camilleri. He grew up in the small Sicilian west coast town of Empedocle during the dictatorship of Italy’s fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. He was always an innovative and disruptive child and was expelled from a Catholic School for defacing a crucifix.

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    • The Shape of Water. When two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture, the coroner's verdict is death from natural causes.
    • The Terracotta Dog. The Terracotta Dog opens with a mysterious tête-à-tête with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers dead fifty years and still embracing are watched over by a life-size terracotta dog.
    • The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano suspects a link between the two incidents.
    • The Voice of the Violin. Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer.
  3. Andrea Calogero Camilleri ( Porto Empedocle, 6 settembre 1925 – Roma, 17 luglio 2019) è stato uno scrittore, sceneggiatore, regista e drammaturgo italiano . Ha raggiunto la popolarità dalla fine degli anni novanta per aver ispirato la serie televisiva di grande successo Il commissario Montalbano trasmessa da Rai 1 .

  4. Andrea Camilleri, the Sicilian author behind the popular Inspector Montalbano television series, has died aged 93. One of Italy's best-loved writers, he had been admitted to a hospital in Rome ...

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  5. Jul 17, 2019 · Andrea Calogero Camilleri was born on Sept. 6, 1925, to Carmella and Giuseppe Camilleri in Porto Empedocle, a town in southwestern Sicily that became a model for Vigata. (For a time in the last ...

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  7. 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.

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