Primo Levi

Primo Levi (31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of two novels and many short stories, poems and essays. His best-known book is If This Is a Man, a true story about his time as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.

Levi was an atheist and born in Turin.

Partial bibliography
 Se questo è un uomo (If This Is a Man, 1947 and 1958)
 La tregua (The Truce, 1963)
 Il sistema periodico (The Periodic Table, 1975)
 La chiave a stella (The Wrench, 1978)
 La ricerca delle radici (The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology, 1981)
 Se non ora, quando? (If Not Now, When?, 1984)
 L'altrui mestiere (Other People's Trades, 1985)
 I sommersi e i salvati (The Drowned and the Saved, 1986)

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