One of Italy’s most popular authors, Camilleri wrote 23 novels starring his Sicilian detective, selling more than 30m copies around the worldOne of Italy’s most popular authors and creator of the Inspector Montalbano series, Andrea Camilleri has died at the age of 93. Camilleri, who was born in Sicily in 1925, was taken to hospital in Rome in June after going into cardiac arrest. 'Italians go for the strongman': Montalbano author on fascism and the future Read moreThe Montalbano series now runs to more than two dozen books, and has been translated into 32 languages, with more than 30m copies sold. Camilleri published the 27th Montalbano novel, Il cuoco dell’Alcyon, in 2018. Charting a changing Italy alongside the series of crimes solved by Salvo Montalbano, Camilleri has said that he “deliberately decided to smuggle into a detective novel a critical commentary on my times”.

Source: The Guardian July 17, 2019 08:25 UTC