Primo Levi

Primo Levi
Primo Levi
Born	31 July 1919; Turin, Italy
Died	11 April 1987 (aged 67); Turin, Italy
Resting place	Monumental Cemetery, Turin, Italy
Education	Degree in chemistry
Alma mater	University of Turin
Occupations	Writer, chemist
Spouse	Lucia Morpurgo (m. 1947)
Children	2
	Writing career
Pen name	Damiano Malabaila (used for some of his fictional works)
Language	Italian
Period	1947–1986
Genres	Autobiography, short story, essay
Notable works	If This Is a Man; The Periodic Table;

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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. His death was officially ruled a suicide, although that has been disputed by some of his friends and associates and attributed to an accident.