Andrea Camilleri. Writer: Detective Montalbano. Born in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Italy in he began to work as stage-manager in After that he directed more than a hundred works of Luigi Pirandello, Samuel Beckett (which he introduced to Italy for the first time in ), and many other authors. In the sixties and seventies, he worked for Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) and he was.