Andrea Camilleri Fund opens in Rome. Franceschini: A gift to culture and to Italians

The Andrea Camilleri Fund opens today in Rome’s Prati district, a fund that was created with the intention of protecting and enhancing the cultural legacy of the writer, theater and radio author, director and intellectual, by creating a space specifically dedicated to the knowledge of his work. The Andrea Camilleri Fund opens to the public on June 7 with the aim of preserving his archive and library and promoting cultural activities starting with his artistic and professional experience and his writing for which he is known worldwide, father of the famous Commissario Montalbano.

To mark the inauguration, the Fund is presenting a documentary exhibition, entitled The Course of Things. Andrea Camilleri and His Archive, which aims to offer an initial representation of the writer’s work through the original documents preserved among his papers. The exhibition has the scientific coordination of Andreina, Elisabetta and Mariolina Camilleri, daughters of the writer, and is curated by Patrizia Severi.

The Fund was presented this morning in the presence of Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri, Lazio Region President Nicola Zingaretti and Culture Minister Dario Franceschini. The archive brings together all his books, translations, essays and dissertations on his work, and his library with over a hundred folders. The Fund is divided into sections: unpublished works, theater directions, essays, work in RAI as director of radio programming of prose content, screenplays and television productions.

“Camilleri designed and donated this archive to us,” said Mayor Gualtieri. “It is important to see that an archive of a European and very Roman intellectual is born in Rome, with notes, screenplays, correspondence, which will be fundamental for the scientific community, but also a hub that we will enhance and which, I imagine, will also be open to simple readers who will want to see and experience the laboratory of works that have impassioned so many.” “Thank you to the family for this gift to the city, the country and the community of lovers of culture and literature,” Gualtieri concluded. “A fund, in a beautiful place that will become a living cultural hub of the city.”

The Camilleri Fund, realized through "a fast and scientifically impeccable work, done in such a short time, is a gift that is given to the country, to the world of culture, to all Italians," commented Minister Franceschini.

Andrea Camilleri Fund opens in Rome. Franceschini: A gift to culture and to Italians

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