安德烈亚·卡米莱里

安德烈亚·卡米莱里（意大利语：Andrea Camilleri，1925年9月6日—2019年7月17日）是意大利推理小说作家。代表作“蒙塔巴诺警长探案系列”被译成多种语言，成为世界畅销书。

生平

1925年出生于意大利西西里岛南部港口城市波尔托恩佩多克莱，早年曾担任过电影导演和编剧。在古稀之年投入小说创作，并取得巨大成功。

他最有名的作品是“蒙塔巴诺警长探案系列”小说，塑造了一个充满了西西里岛特色、智勇双全的意大利探长形象。小说被翻拍成系列电视剧，在意大利、英国、美国、法国、西班牙、德国和澳大利亚等地广受欢迎。

卡米莱里非常喜欢西班牙推理小说家巴斯克斯·蒙塔尔万。蒙塔巴诺警长的名字就取自蒙塔尔万。

2019年6月17日，卡米莱里心脏病发作入院，7月17日离世。

评价

意大利总统塞尔焦·马塔雷拉说，卡米莱里的逝世，给钟爱他和意大利文化的读者们留下了难以填补的空白。总理朱塞佩·孔特表示，卡米莱里是一位讽刺大师，创造了无可比拟的西西里岛虚构故事，“我们失去了一位作家，一位知识分子，一位能和任何人说上话的人”。

荣誉

2003年获授大军官级意大利共和国功勋勋章。2008年获RBA国际犯罪小说奖，2012年获英国犯罪作家协会国际匕首奖。

他还获得了比萨大学（2005年）、罗马大学（2012年）、都柏林大学学院（2011年）和罗马美国大学（2013年）的荣誉博士学位。

Andrea Calogero Camilleri (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛːa kamilˈlɛːri]; 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019) was an Italian writer best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels.

Biography

Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti, Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Palermo, but did not complete his degree; during that time he published poems and short stories.

From 1948 to 1950, he studied stage and film direction at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts (Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica) and began to take on work as a director and screenwriter, directing especially plays by Pirandello and Beckett. His parents knew and reportedly were "distant friends" of Pirandello, as he relates in his essay on Pirandello, Biography of the Changed Son. His most famous works, the Montalbano series, exhibit 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.

With RAI, Camilleri worked on several TV productions, such as Le inchieste del commissario Maigret with Gino Cervi. In 1977, he returned to the Academy of Dramatic Arts, holding the chair of Film Direction and occupying it for 20 years.

Camilleri wrote his first novel, Il Corso Delle Cose ("The Way Things Go"), in 1978. This was followed by Un Filo di Fumo ("A Thread of Smoke") in 1980. Neither of these works enjoyed any significant popularity.

In 1992, after a long pause of 12 years, Camilleri once more took up novel writing. A new book, La Stagione della Caccia ("The Hunting Season") became a best-seller.

In 1994, Camilleri published La forma dell'Acqua (The Shape of Water), the first in a long series of novels featuring Inspector Salvo Montalbano, a fractious detective in the police force of Vigàta, an imaginary Sicilian town. The series is written in Italian but with a substantial sprinkling of Sicilian phrases and grammar. The name Montalbano is an homage to the Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán; the similarities between Montalban's Pepe Carvalho and Camilleri's fictional detective are noteworthy. Both writers make use of their protagonists' gastronomic preferences.

This interesting quirk has become something of a fad among his readership, even in mainland Italy. The TV adaptation of Montalbano's adventures, starring Luca Zingaretti, further increased Camilleri's popularity to such a point that in 2003 Camilleri's home town, Porto Empedocle – on which Vigàta is modelled – took the extraordinary step of changing its official name to that of Porto Empedocle Vigàta, no doubt with an eye to capitalising on the tourism possibilities thrown up by the author's work. On his website, Camilleri refers to the engaging and multi-faceted character of Montalbano as a "serial killer of characters," meaning that he has developed a life of his own and demands great attention from his author to the detriment of other potential books and characters. Camilleri added that he wrote a Montalbano novel every so often just so that the character would be appeased and allow him to work on other stories.

In 2012, Camilleri's The Potter's Field (translated by Stephen Sartarelli) was announced as the winner of the 2012 Crime Writers' Association International Dagger. The announcement was made on 5 July 2012 at the awards ceremony held at One Birdcage Walk in London.

In his last years, Camilleri lived in Rome where he worked as a TV and theatre director. About 10 million copies of his novels have been sold to date and are becoming increasingly popular in the UK (where BBC Four broadcast the Montalbano TV series from mid-2011), Australia and North America.