Primo Michele Levi was born in Turin, Italy on 31 July 1919. He 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 The Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution of Great Britain
named the best science book ever
written.
Levi died in 11 April 1987 from injuries sustained in a fall from a third-story apartment landing. His death was officially ruled a suicide, but some have suggested that the fall was accidental.
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Primo Levi (1919-1987)
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THE PERIODIC TABLE (1975)
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IF THIS IS A MAN (1947)
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THE TRUCE (1963) |
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