In Sicilia con Andrea Camilleri

Fantastic places of a great storyteller, real places of a great writer. A journey made up of places and words, following in the footsteps of Andrea Camilleri in his Sicily. An itinerary that starts from Porto Empedocle, the writer's birthplace, and takes us to Vigàta, the imaginary place that came to life in his novels and in the collective imagination. A map based on the books of a writer born a hundred years ago in a wealthy seaside village that merges and overlaps with Vigàta, where the statue of Inspector Montalbano stands. It is a journey between reality and fiction, of small and large shifts in which Vigàta is Porto Empedocle, but also Punta Secca from the television series that made these places famous. Salvatore Picone and Gaetano Savatteri follow in the footsteps of a contemporary storyteller, drawing on the traces and suggestions scattered throughout his work, his books and his newspaper articles.

Gaetano Savatteri

Gaetano Savatteri was born in Milan in 1964 and lives in Rome.
He is a journalist and writer.
He began his journalistic career at Giornale di Sicilia, then moved to Rome where he collaborates with Tg3 and Tg5.
His books include La congiura dei loquaci (Sellerio, 2000), La ferita di Vishinskij (Sellerio, 2003), I Siciliani (Laterza, 2005), Gli uomini che non si voltano (Sellerio, 2006), La volata di Calò (Sellerio, 2008), Uno per tutti (Sellerio, 2008), I Ragazzi di Regalpetra (Rizzoli, 2009), Strani Nostrani. Storie di Siciliani fuori dal comune (Novantacento, 2010), La fabbrica delle stelle (Sellerio, 2016), Non c'è più la Sicilia di una volta (Laterza, 2017), La congiura dei loquaci (Sellerio, 2017), Il delitto di Kolymbetra (Sellerio, 2018), Il lusso della giovinezza (Sellerio, 2020), Quattro indagini a Màkari (Sellerio, 2021) and I colpevoli sono matti (Sellerio, 2022). In 2022 he edited, also for Sellerio, the volume L'isola nuova. Trent’anni di scritture in Sicilia. He has also published several short stories in anthologies published by Sellerio.
He has published essays and surveys on Cosa Nostra.
In November 2015, the novel of the same name Uno per tutti was made into a film directed by Mimmo Calopresti.

In 2021, the TV series Màkari starring Claudio Gioè, based on the novels and short stories featuring journalist and investigator Saverio Lamanna, premiered on Rai 1 in prime time. The series has met with great critical and audience success and reached its third season in 2024.