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Paolo Maurensig

Biography

Paolo Maurensig was born in Gorizia in 1943. As a child, he was a keen chess player and this can be seen in his best-known book, La variante di Lüneburg (The Lüneburg Variation). After studying classics, he worked in a variety of jobs, including publishing, salesman and restoring antique musical instruments. He has since written many well-received stories and novels. He died in 2021.

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Bibliography

1965 I saggi fiori (stories)
1993 La variante di Lüneburg (The Lüneburg Variation)
1996 Canone inverso
1997 L’ombra e la meridiana
1998 Venere lesa
1998 Gianni Borta. Gesto, natura, azione
2001 L’uomo scarlatto
2001 La Mozartina : i gioielli del Maestro Canciani.
2003 Polietica. Una promessa
2003 Il guardiano dei sogni
2006 Vukovlad Il signore dei lupi
2008 Gli amanti fiamminghi
2009 La tempesta Il mistero di Giorgione
2010 L’oro degli immortali
2012 L’ultima traversa
2012 Il golf e l’arte di orientarsi con il naso
2013 L’arcangelo degli scacchi vita segreta di Paul Morphy
2014 Amori miei e altri animali
2015 Teoria delle ombre (Theory of Shadows)
2018 Il diavolo nel cassetto (A Devil Comes to Town)
2019 Il gioco degli dèi,
2020 Pimpernel. Una storia d’amore
2021 L’ombra e la meridiana
2022 Il quartetto Razumovsky