What is Primo Levi?
[[File:Primo Levi.jpg|thumb|Primo Levi]] '''Primo Levi''' (31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[Jew]]ish [[chemist]], [[writer]] and Holocaust survivor. He was the [[author]] of two [[novel]]s and many [[short story|short stories]], [[poetry|poems]] and [[essay]]s.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/levi.html | title=Primo Levi | author=David Keffer | publisher=www.themodernword.com | format= | accessdate=2011-11-11 | archive-date=2013-11-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112114510/http://www.themodernword.com/SCRIPTorium/levi.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> 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) == References == {{reflist|2}} {{Strega Prize}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Levi, Primo}} [[Category:1919 births]] [[Category:1987 deaths]] [[Category:Chemists]] [[Category:Holocaust survivors]] [[Category:Italian atheists]] [[Category:Italian Jews]] [[Category:Italian poets]] [[Category:Jewish atheists]] [[Category:Jewish scientists]] [[Category:Jewish writers]] [[Category:People from Turin]] [[Category:Suicides by jumping]] [[Category:20th-century Italian writers]] <!--[[Category:Suicides in Italy]]-->