The writer Maurensig died at the age of 78

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Time.news – The writer Paolo Maurensig has died. Born in Gorizia in 1943, Maurensig was the author of several books. Success came in the 90s with “The Luneburg variant” published in 1993 by the Adelphi publishing house. The novel, which tells of a game between two chess masters through the historical events of the Second World War, it has been translated all over the world and has sold 300,000 copies in Italy alone. In 2007 a theatrical transposition of the novel made its debut at the Verdi theater in Gorizia, with the voice of Milva.

In 1996 Maurensig’s success was confirmed with ‘Canone inverso’ (Mondadori), which has sold around 200,000 copies in Italy and from which the eponymous film by Ricky Tognazzi was made. Among the various awards obtained by the writer, in 2016, the awarding of the Cortina d’Ampezzo Prize, for his ‘Theory of shadows’ (Adelphi).

“A mourning for Central European culture”, said the president of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Massimiliano Fedriga, after hearing the news: “The writer from Gorizia Paolo Maurensig left us. Storyteller and profound connoisseur of our people and our lands. His literary heritage will be among our most precious memories”.

“Friulian author capable, with his novels, of becoming a full part of the collective imagination and of reaching, through the cinematographic transpositions of his works, the widest audience”. the mayor of Udine Pietro Fontanini who also underlined “his civic commitment, culminating in his experience as councilor for culture of the Municipality of Udine, and the extraordinary ability to always be available to people “.

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