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Primo Levi
Primo Michele Levi (Turin, 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.
He graduated in Chemistry from the University of Turin in 1941 and two years later joined the anti-fascist resistance. He was captured and deported to Auschwitz, where he worked as a slave in an industrial plant. After the camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945 and after an odyssey through several Eastern European countries, he returned to Turin and published his first account of the extermination camps,
Se questo è un uomo
If This Is a Man
/ US:
The Reawakening
).
His later biographical writings
La tregua
The Truce
, 1963) and
I sommersi e i salvati
The Drowned and the Saved
, 1986) are reflections on the experience of horror. His other works include
Il sistema periodico
The Periodic Table
),
Se non ora, quando?
If Not Now, When?
),
Storie naturali
(as Damiano Malabaila),
La chiave a stella
The Wrench
, 1978),
Lilit e altri racconti
(1978),
La ricerca delle radici
The Search for Roots
, 1981), and
L' ultimo Natale di guerra
(1984).
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Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
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31 July 1919
Died
11 April 1987
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Survival in Auschwitz
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First published in 1947
112 editions
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The reawakening
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First published in 1963
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The periodic table
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First published in 1975
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The drowned and the saved
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First published in 1986
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The wrench
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First published in 1978
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If Not Now, When?
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First published in 1982
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If this is a man / The truce
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First published in 1963
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The search for roots: a personal anthology
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First published in 1981
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Lilit E Altri Racconti
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First published in 1981
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The mirror maker: stories and essays
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First published in 1989
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Other people's trades
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Raymond Rosenthal
First published in 1985
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Dialogo
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Tullio Regge
First published in 1984
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Moments of reprieve
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First published in 1986
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Auschwitz Testimonies: 1945-1986
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Leonardo De Benedetti
Fabio Levi
Domenico Scarpa
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Marc Lesage
First published in 2015
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Trilogia d'Auschwitz
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First published in 2005
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Storie naturali
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First published in 1966
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A tranquil star: unpublished stories
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First published in 2007
7 editions
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Conversations with Primo Levi
by
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Ferdinando Camon
First published in 1989
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Defecto de forma
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First published in 1971
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Auschwitz Report
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Leonardo De Benedetti
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Leonardo Debenedetti
First published in 2005
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Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
Born
31 July 1919
Died
11 April 1987
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Italian Authors
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Biography
Holocaust survivors
World War, 1939-1945
Levi, primo, 1919-1987
Interviews
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Personal narratives
German Prisoners and prisons
Italian Personal narratives
Jews
Translations into English
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Prisoners of war
Concentration camps
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Jewish Personal narratives
Jewish authors
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Chemists
Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fiction, general
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Italy
Poland
Oświęcim
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Oświȩcim
Abruzzo (Italy)
Auschwitz
Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Poland: Concentration camp)
Carthage
Deutschland
Europe
Juden
Milan
Naples
Netherlands
Oâswiñecim
Oświęcim (Poland)
Stockholm
Sweden
People
Primo Levi
Primo Levi (1919-1987)
Alonso
Antonio
Ariel
Caliban
Ceres
Domenico Morelli (1823-1901)
Ferdinand
Gonzalo
Iris
Juno
Miranda
Primo Levi (1853-1917)
Prospero
Sebastian
Sycorax
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time
20th century
1955
20e siècle
German occupation, 1940-1945
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ID Numbers
OLID: OL74802A
BookBrainz:
397b264f-2d61-40e3-82c4-c59781544b9b
GoodReads:
4187
ISNI:
0000000081559527
IMDb:
nm0505485
Library of Congress Names:
n79056057
LibraryThing:
leviprimo
MusicBrainz:
76973584-91bb-4117-9516-869563db6cf1
SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy):
CFIV007684
VIAF:
76319000
Wikidata:
Q153670
Inventaire.io:
wd:Q153670
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Alternative names
Primo Michele Levi
Damiano Malabaila
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