Having come late in life to writing, Camilleri thought he would just write a couple of books featuring DI Salvo Montalbano when he created him in 1994. The series now stands at 12, and Camilleri, who will be 86 this year, has become Italy’s best-selling and most loved author. He starts the day with a beer, smokes like a chimney, and is wonderfully engaging company. Montalbano is named after Vázquez Montalbán, whose writing and politics Camilleri greatly respects, and there are clear similarities between the Sicilian and Pepe Carvalho. If you haven’t read them, you have a treat in store

安德烈·卡米樂
意大利

如今這一系列現在已經有了12本，而今年已有86歲的卡米樂也已經成為意大利最暢銷和最受愛戴的作者。每天他以一杯啤酒開始生活，他抽煙如同個大煙囪，他還有很多很好的朋友。小說中的人物Montalbano是他以自己極尊重其作品和政治主張的西班牙作家芒塔爾班（如上介紹過）命名的。他筆下這位出身西西里的偵探與芒塔爾班筆下的卡瓦羅有清晰的相似之處。如果你還沒有讀過這些故事，去發現那寶藏吧。
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