Which Italian region is the setting for the Inspector Montalban novels by Andrea Camilleri?
Andrea Camilleri Andrea Camilleri Andrea Calogero Camilleri (; born 6 September 1925) is an Italian writer. Originally from Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Camilleri began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories. From 1948 to 1950 Camilleri studied stage and film direction at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts (Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica) and began to take on work as a director and screenwriter, directing especially plays by Pirandello and Beckett. His parents knew, and were, reportedly, "distant friends" of, Pirandello, as he tells in his essay on Pirandello "Biography of the Changed
Andrea Camilleri Neither of these works enjoyed any significant amount of popularity. In 1992, after a long pause of 12 years, Camilleri once more took up novel-writing. A new book, "La Stagione della Caccia" ("The Hunting Season") turned out to be a best-seller. In 1994 Camilleri published the first in a long series of novels: "La forma dell'Acqua" ("The Shape of Water") featured the character of Inspector Montalbano, a fractious Sicilian detective in the police force of Vigàta, an imaginary Sicilian town. The series is written in Italian but with a substantial sprinkling of Sicilian phrases and grammar. The name Montalbano is