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Primo Levi

1919 - 1987

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Primo Michele Levi (Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. 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 (Se questo è un uomo, 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 which plays a role in each story, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written. Levi died in 1987 from injuries sustained in a fall from a third-storey apartment landing. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Primo Levi is the 260th most popular writer (up from 267th in 2019), the 376th most popular biography from Italy (down from 360th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Italian Writer.

Primo Levi is most famous for his memoir about his time in Auschwitz, "Survival in Auschwitz."

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Among writers, Primo Levi ranks 260 out of 7,302. Before him are Johanna Spyri, Joseph Heller, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jaroslav Hašek, J. K. Rowling, and Alcaeus of Mytilene. After him are Herta Müller, Dale Carnegie, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jordanes, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Shmuel Yosef Agnon.

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Among people born in 1919, Primo Levi ranks 7. Before him are Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Eva Perón, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Siad Barre, Edmund Hillary, and J. D. Salinger. After him are I. K. Gujral, Doris Lessing, Kim Jong-suk, Joseph Murray, G. E. M. Anscombe, and Giulio Andreotti. Among people deceased in 1987, Primo Levi ranks 6. Before him are Andy Warhol, Louis de Broglie, Rudolf Hess, Dalida, and Carl Rogers. After him are Lee Byung-chul, John Howard Northrop, Rita Hayworth, Andrey Kolmogorov, Fred Astaire, and Walter Houser Brattain.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Primo Levi ranks 376 out of 5,161. Before him are Dario Fo (1926), Giambattista Vico (1668), Tommaso Campanella (1568), Herod Agrippa II (28), Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499), and Pope John XI (910). After him are Atia (-85), Pope Clement III (1130), Pope Marinus I (830), Sofonisba Anguissola (1535), Pope Pelagius I (505), and Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Primo Levi ranks 21. Before him are Carlo Goldoni (1707), Torquato Tasso (1544), Pliny the Younger (61), Juvenal (50), Grazia Deledda (1871), and Dario Fo (1926). After him are Sallust (-86), Ludovico Ariosto (1474), Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), Luigi Pirandello (1867), Alberto Moravia (1907), and Christine de Pizan (1365).

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