Primo Levi
Italian Jewish partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer (1919–1987) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Primo Michele Levi[1][2] (Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was a Jewish-Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Holocaust survivor. 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 (1947, published as Survival in Auschwitz in the United States), 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 as it played a role in each story, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written.[3]
Primo Levi | |
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Born | (1919-07-31)31 July 1919 Turin, Italy |
Died | 11 April 1987(1987-04-11) (aged 67) Turin, Italy |
Pen name | Damiano Malabaila (used for some of his fictional works) |
Occupation | Writer, chemist |
Language | Italian |
Nationality | Italian |
Education | Degree in chemistry |
Alma mater | University of Turin |
Period | 1947–1986 |
Genre | Autobiography, short story, essay |
Notable works | |
Spouse | Lucia Morpurgo (1947–1987, his death) |
Children | 2 |
Levi died in 1987 from injuries sustained in a fall from a third-story apartment landing. His death was officially ruled a suicide, although this has been disputed by some of his friends and associates and attributed to an accident.[4][5]