WRITER

Andrea Camilleri

1925 - 2019

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrea Camilleri has received more than 744,737 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Andrea Camilleri is the 701st most popular writer (down from 641st in 2019), the 856th most popular biography from Italy (down from 795th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Italian Writer.

Andrea Camilleri is most famous for writing the Inspector Montalbano series of detective novels.

Memorability Metrics

  • 740k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Gocce di Sicilia
2001
Il gioco della mosca
1995
Biografia di un figlio cambiato
2000
Vi racconto Montalbano
2006
L' ombrello di Noè
2002
LA Voz Del Violin
Fiction
20033 / 5

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Andrea Camilleri ranks 701 out of 7,302. Before him are Multatuli, Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur, Naim Frashëri, Luis de Góngora, Periander, and Pavel Jozef Šafárik. After him are Arto Paasilinna, Jack Vance, Maurice Denis, Max Jacob, Louise Hay, and Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Andrea Camilleri ranks 48. Before him are Sam Peckinpah, Maya Plisetskaya, Zvi Zamir, Robert Edwards, Robert Altman, and Ieng Sary. After him are Luciano Berio, Wong Fei-hung, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Robert Venturi, Juan Alberto Schiaffino, and Roy J. Glauber. Among people deceased in 2019, Andrea Camilleri ranks 34. Before him are Marie Fredriksson, Mariss Jansons, Marie Laforêt, Bibi Andersson, Doris Day, and Albert Finney. After him are B. J. Habibie, Manfred Eigen, David J. Thouless, Claudine Auger, Murray Gell-Mann, and Tony Buzan.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Andrea Camilleri ranks 856 out of 5,161. Before him are Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (1806), Valentino (1932), Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1498), Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (-84), Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (1726), and Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (-519). After him are Marcus Claudius Tacitus (200), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Salvator Rosa (1615), Gentile da Fabriano (1370), Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary (1776), and Tarcisio Bertone (1934).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Andrea Camilleri ranks 59. Before him are Curzio Malaparte (1898), Giosuè Carducci (1835), Pietro Metastasio (1698), Giambattista Basile (1566), Carlo Gozzi (1720), and Francesca da Rimini (1259). After him are Veronica Franco (1546), Emilio Salgari (1862), Theognis of Megara (-570), Epicharmus of Kos (-524), Antonio Tabucchi (1943), and Natalia Ginzburg (1916).

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