Question: Were both Primo Levi and Bryce Courtenay advertising directors?

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Best science book ever: On 19 October 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named "The Periodic Table", by Primo Levi, the best science book ever.  After taking nominations from many scientists in various disciplines, authors, and other notable people (such as the Archbishop of Canterbury), the Royal Institution compiled a shortlist of books for consideration.  This shortlist was presented to the public at an event held at Imperial College and the audience voted to determine which book was "the best."

A Tranquil Star: A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi is a 2007 anthology of short stories by the Italian writer Primo Levi.  Released 20 years after Levi's death, the book consists of seventeen stories previously unpublished in English.  The stories were translated by Ann Goldstein, an editor at "The New Yorker" and Alessandra Bastagli, an editor at Palgrave Macmillan.

Bryce Courtenay: Bryce Courtenay, AM (14 August 193322 November 2012) was a South African/Australian advertising director and novelist.  He is one of Australia's best-selling authors, notable for his book "The Power of One".

Shop Talk: Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work is a collection of previously published interviews with important 20th-century writers by novelist Philip Roth.  Among the writers interviewed are Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Ivan Klima, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Milan Kundera, and Edna O'Brien.  In addition, the book contains a discussion with Mary McCarthy about Roth's novel "The Counterlife" and a "New Yorker" essay on Saul Bellow.  Roth's trip to Israel to interview Appelfeld inspired his novel "Operation Shylock".

The Truce (1997 film): The Truce (Italian: "La Tregua" ) is a 1997 film directed by Francesco Rosi, written by Tonino Guerra, based on Primo Levi's memoir, "The Truce".  The film deals with Primo Levi's experiences returning to Italy in 1945 after the Red Army liberated the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War.  This was Rosi's final film before his death in 2015.

Primo Levi: Primo Michele Levi (] ; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor.  He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems.  His best-known works include "If This Is a Man" (1947) (U.S.: "Survival in Auschwitz"), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and his unique work, "The Periodic Table" (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever written.

The Black Hole of Auschwitz: The Black Hole of Auschwitz is a collection of essays by the Italian author Primo Levi.  Originally published under the Italian title "Asymmetry and Life" it has two distinct halves.  The first half, "The Black Hole of Auschwitz" is a collection of essays, often prefaces to other books, which make a plea against holocaust denial.  The second half "Other People's Trades" are a mixture of essays on a wide variety of subjects.  All of these works were collected together in the production of Levi's Italian anthology of works "Opere" in 1997.

April Fool's Day (novel): April Fool's Day is a 1993 book by Australian author Bryce Courtenay.  The book is a tribute to the author's son, Damon Courtenay, a haemophiliac who contracted HIV/AIDS through an infected blood transfusion.  The title refers to the date of Damon's death, 1 April 1991 (April Fools' Day).

Giovanni Palatucci: Giovanni Palatucci (31 May 1909 – 10 February 1945) was an Italian police official who was long believed to have saved thousands of Jews in Fiume between 1939 and 1944 (current Rijeka in Croatia) from being deported to Nazi extermination camps.  In 2013 a research panel of historians led by the "Centro Primo Levi" reviewed almost 700 documents and concluded that Palatucci had followed RSI and German orders concerning the Jews and enabling the deportation of the majority of the 570 Jews living in Fiume and surrounding areas, 412 of whom were deported to Auschwitz, a higher percentage than in any Italian city.  The matter is currently the topic of scholarly debate.  A national commission of historians recommended by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities, the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan, the Italian Ministry of the Interior and the Centro Primo Levi NY is conducting a comprehensive review of the documents.

Jessica (novel): Jessica is a historical novel based in real facts by Bryce Courtenay.  It was published in 1998 and like other works from Courtenay covers several years in the life of the main character: Jessica Bergman.  It was adapted into a mini-series starring Leeanna Walsman and Sam Neill which aired on Australian television in 2004. " Jessica" was voted Best Mini Series at the 2004 Chicago International Film Festival.  It twice won the APA Who Weekly Reader's Choice Award, in 1999 and 2000.

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