Andrea Camilleri (1925-2019) was a screenwriter and director for theater, radio and television, and taught at the Academy of Dramatic Art and at the Experimental Center for Cinema. In 1994 he created Salvo Montalbano, an endearing Sicilian curator, the protagonist of a series consisting of twenty-eight books. In addition, he has written innumerable novels with a historical theme. Camilleri, translated into thirty-six languages and with more than thirty million copies sold worldwide, was awarded the Campiello (2011) and Pepe Carvalho (2014) awards.