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	199 of 226. Italian Andrea Camilleri created the character Salvo Montalbano of the 'Inspector Montalbano' detective novels. Over a period of 25 years, his writings transformed a grim landscape of mobsters and mafia violence to a light-hearted, humorous, food-focused near-paradise of an imaginary town called Vigàta. His 24 novels and 10 short stories were made into 34 episodes for television and distributed in some 60 countries. Andrea Camilleri died in 2019 at the age of 93.