The author, who has died aged 93, was almost 70 when he took up the genre, but his novels are as rich with serious thinking as with thrilling plotsObituary: `A beacon of hope to a greying world´Andrea Camilleri, who has died aged 93, was one of the latest starters and latest finishers in crime fiction.He was almost 70 - after a rich career as a theatre director, TV producer, playwright and novelist in other genres - when, finding himself stuck on a historical story, he distracted himself by quickly writing a detective story. In a sort of literary European Union, he was influenced by three literary heroes: the Belgian Georges Simenon, creator of Inspector Maigret; Leonardo Sciascia, author of The Day of the Owl, who was a native of Sicily like Camilleri; and the Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Related: Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing Continue reading...
|
