


Referring to how his character would brusquely answer his phone, Zingaretti added that 'every time I will say, even alone, in my head, 'Montalbano sono' (it's Montalbano), wherever you went, you will smile, maybe smoking a cigarette and winking at me in a sign of understanding, just like the last time we saw each other,' in Sicily.Ĭamilleri's position at the top of the book sales charts in Italy - he often had several books high in the rankings in the same week - was even more remarkable because the author sprinkled many of his works with words that many Italians aren't familiar with. Andrea Camilleri reads a Luigi Priandello novel at Rome's Piccolo Eliseo theatre, 2001
