Mauricio Wiesenthal

Mauricio Wiesenthal (born 1943 in Barcelona) is a Spanish writer. His works include fiction, biography, history, poetry, biography, literary and art criticism, including medicine and œnology.

In 1992, Mauricio Wiesenthal was awarded with the Gold Cup of the Oenologists of Catalonia. Also awarded with the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (Spain), in 2016.

Selected works

 * The Belle Époque of the Orient-Express, Geocolor, 1979 (travel)
 * Historia de la Fotografía, Salvat, 1979 (essay)
 * Imagen de España, Salvat, 1984 (essay)
 * Diccionario del Vino, Salvat, 2001 (oenology)
 * El Gran Libro del Vino,Salvat, 2002 (oenology)
 * Libro de Réquiems, Edhasa, 2004 (biography)
 * Chandala Sutra, Altafulla, 2004 (poetry)
 * La cata de Vinos, Alba Editorial, 2005 (essay, oenology)
 * El esnobismo de las golondrinas, Edhasa, 2007 (travel)
 * Luz de Vísperas, Edhasa, 2008 (novel)
 * El viejo León, Tolstoi, un retrato literario, Edhasa, 2010 (biography, essay)
 * Perdido en Poesía, Ediciones de la Isla de Siltolá, 2013 (poetry)
 * Siguiendo mi camino, Acantilado, 2013 (biography, essay)
 * Rainer Maria Rilke, el vidente y lo oculto, Acantilado, 2016 (biography, essay)
 * Marrakech, fantasía en el palmeral, Editorial Trifolium, 2016 (travel)
 * La hispanibundia. Retrato español de familia, Acantilado, 2018 (essay)
 * Orient-Express. El tren de Europa, Acantilado, 2020 (travel)
 * Appassionata (Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt), Edhasa, 2020 (biography, essay)
 * Suite romántica (Goethe, Byron, Walter Scott), Edhasa, 2020 (biography, essay)
 * Sonata humanista (Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Albert Camus), Edhasa 2021 (biography, essay)
 * 'Concierto para libertinos (Balzac, Casanova, D.H. Lawrence, Libertinos en Capri y Taormina)', Edhasa 2021 (biography, essay)
 * El derecho a disentir, Acantilado 2021, (essay)
 * Las reinas del mar. Memorias de una vida aventurera, Acantilado 2024 (travel, fiction)