Primo Levi Biography

Primo Levi biography

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NAME: Primo Levi
OCCUPATION: Chemist, Journalist, Poet
BIRTH DATE: July 31, 1919
DEATH DATE: April 11, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH: Turin, Italy
PLACE OF DEATH: Turin, Italy

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Italian Jewish chemist Primo Levi survived a year at Auschwitz against all odds. He is best known his moving memoir, If This Is a Man.

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Italian Jewish chemist Primo Levi survived a year at Auschwitz during World War II against all odds. Upon his liberation in 1945 he began writing about his experience and has authored the works If This Is a Man, The Truce, and The Periodic Table. If This Is a Man has been described as his best work. His death in 1987 is argued to be a suicide.

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