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Primo Levi
AuthorBooks · Second hand1918-1987
Primo Michele Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works include: If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), a collection of mostly autobiographical short stories, each named after a chemical element which plays a role in each story, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.
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Birth
1918
Death
1987
First book
1947
Years writing
40
Primo Levi balanced his professional career as a chemist with a prolific literary output that included novels, essays, and poetry.
Throughout his writing career, he occasionally used the pseudonym Damiano Malabaila.
His scientific training left a distinct mark on his writing, particularly in works such as The Periodic Table.
Following his survival of the Auschwitz concentration camp, he committed his life to providing a written account of his experiences.
A native of Turin, Levi remains a central figure in 20th-century Italian literature and a profound voice of historical memory.