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Primo Levi
Primo Michele Levi 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, 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 autob…
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Born 31 July 1918 · Died 11 April 1987 · Q153670
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2026· 24 entries
Fast Company: These rare (and very popular) Levi’s 501s are a snapshot of apparel history
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PR Newswire: HUBG Deadline Alert: Levi & Korsinsky Reminds Hub Group, Inc. (HUBG) Investors of Securities Class Action Deadline on August 28, 2026
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PR Newswire: WIX DEADLINE: Levi & Korsinsky Reminds Wix.com Ltd. Investors of Upcoming Securities Class Action Deadline
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PR Newswire: REGN Investor Alert: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Securities Class Action Notice - Contact Levi & Korsinsky
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PR Newswire: HTZ DEADLINE: Levi & Korsinsky Reminds Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. Investors of Upcoming Securities Class Action Deadline
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PR Newswire: Levi & Korsinsky Reminds First Solar, Inc. Investors of the Pending Class Action Lawsuit With a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of August 24, 2026 - FSLR
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PR Newswire: BABA UPCOMING DEADLINE: Levi & Korsinsky Alerts Alibaba Group Holding Limited Stockholders of Securities Class Action - Contact the Firm
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PR Newswire: PODD Deadline Alert: Levi & Korsinsky Reminds Insulet Corporation (PODD) Investors of Securities Class Action Deadline on August 31, 2026
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PR Newswire: PLAB Deadline Alert: Levi & Korsinsky Reminds Photronics, Inc. (PLAB) Investors of Securities Class Action Deadline on September 4, 2026
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PR Newswire: Levi & Korsinsky Reminds Futu Holdings Limited Investors of the Pending Class Action Lawsuit With a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of August 25, 2026 - FUTU
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PR Newswire: RXT DEADLINE: Levi & Korsinsky Reminds Rackspace Technology, Inc. Investors of Upcoming Securities Class Action Deadline
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PR Newswire: UWMC UPCOMING DEADLINE: Levi & Korsinsky Alerts UWM Holdings Corporation Stockholders of Securities Class Action - Contact the Firm
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PR Newswire: CAR Shareholder Alert: Investors With Losses May Seek to Lead the Class Action in Pentwater Capital Management Securities Lawsuit - Contact Levi & Korsinsky
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PR Newswire: MVST Investor Alert: Microvast Holdings, Inc. Securities Class Action Notice - Contact Levi & Korsinsky
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PR Newswire: MGN Deadline Alert: Levi & Korsinsky Reminds Megan Holdings Limited (MGN) Investors of Securities Class Action Deadline on September 8, 2026
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PR Newswire: SPRY Shareholder Alert: Investors With Losses May Seek to Lead the Class Action in ARS Pharmaceuticals Securities Lawsuit - Contact Levi & Korsinsky
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PR Newswire: Levi & Korsinsky Reminds Peabody Energy Investors of the Pending Class Action Lawsuit With a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of August 24, 2026 - BTU
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PR Newswire: DVLT UPCOMING DEADLINE: Levi & Korsinsky Alerts Datavault AI Inc. Stockholders of Securities Class Action - Contact the Firm
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The Guardian: Levi Bellfield to have DNA test in connection with Lin and Megan Russell murders
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The Guardian: The Black Lights review – Mica Levi, Moin and Klein thrill at an awesome addition to the UK festival circuit
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: A Man of Few Words by Carlo Greppi review – Primo Levi’s saviour… and a tortured soul
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2021· 1 entry
The work was performed by Megan Marie Hart during the opening event of the festival year 1700 Jahre jüdisches Leben in Deutschland commemorating the first documented mention of Jewish communities in the territory of pres
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2020· 2 entries
Published “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 8,076 times.
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,083 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Levi's 100th birthday was commemorated throughout the world, including the United States, Portugal, and Italy
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,026 times.
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2017· 2 entries
The Primo Levi Prize has been awarded by the German Chemical Society and the Italian Chemical Society to honour chemists for their commitment to human rights
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet — cited 6,187 times.
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2016· 2 entries
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,711 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,092 times.
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2015· 3 entries
Published “Endovascular Therapy for Ischemic Stroke with Perfusion-Imaging Selection” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 5,141 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013” in The Lancet — cited 5,008 times.
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Penguin published The Complete Works of Primo Levi, ed
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2008· 1 entry
The City of Turin and other partners established the International Primo Levi Studies Center to preserve and promote Levi's legacy
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition (1997).
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1995· 1 entry
Five health and human rights organizations established the Primo Levi Center in Paris to provide services to torture survivors
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1987· 5 entries
Died 1987-04-11.
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From injuries sustained in a fall from a third-storey apartment landing
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“O objetivo da vida é criar melhor defesa contra a morte.”
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“Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.”
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“We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.”
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1986· 3 entries
As The Monkey Wrench and in the UK in 1987 as The Wrench, is difficult to categorize
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A collection of short stories, previously published in La Stampa, was assembled and published as Racconti e saggi, some of which were published in the English volume The Mirror Maker
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His book I sommersi e i salvati (The Drowned and the Saved) was published
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1985· 2 entries
Flew to the United States for a 20-day speaking tour
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A volume of his essays, previously published in La Stampa, was published under the title L'altrui mestiere (Other People's Trades)
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1984· 1 entry
Levi published his only novel, If Not Now, When
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1982· 2 entries
Awarded Viareggio Prize (1982).
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Awarded Premio Campiello (1982).
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded Strega Prize (1979).
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And brought Levi a wider audience in Italy, though left-wing critics regretted that he did not describe the harsh working conditions on the assembly lines at Fiat
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1977· 1 entry
At the age of 58, Levi retired as a part-time consultant at the SIVA paint factory to devote himself full-time to writing
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1975· 1 entry
A collection of Levi's poetry was published under the title L'osteria di Brema (The Bremen Beer Hall), which was published in English as Shema: Collected Poems
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1974· 1 entry
Levi arranged to go into semi-retirement from SIVA in order to have more time to write
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Bagutta Prize (1967).
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Shortly before the Six Days War, Levi made a speech at a Turin synagogue in which he called Israel "a country of witnesses and martyrs, of the insurgents of Warsaw, of Sobibór, and of Treblinka" and stated that: "The goa
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1964· 1 entry
Levi collaborated with the state broadcaster RAI on a radio play based on If This Is a Man and, in 1966, with a theatre production
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1963· 3 entries
Awarded Premio Campiello (1963).
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Suffered his first major bout of depression
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Almost 16 years after his first book, and won the first annual Premio Campiello literary award that year
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1959· 1 entry
Heinz Riedt, under close supervision by Levi, translated the book into German
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1958· 2 entries
Stuart Woolf, in close collaboration with Levi, translated If This Is a Man into English, and it was published in the UK by Orion Press in 1959
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Einaudi, a major publisher, published it in a revised form and promoted it
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1954· 1 entry
Visited Buchenwald to mark the ninth anniversary of the camp's liberation from the Nazis
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1950· 1 entry
Having demonstrated his chemical talents to Accatti, Levi was promoted to Technical Director at SIVA
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1946· 1 entry
Met Lucia Morpurgo, who offered to teach him to dance, and Levi fell in love with her
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1941· 1 entry
While being employed at the asbestos mine in San Vittore
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1939· 1 entry
Levi discovered a passion for mountain hiking
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1937· 1 entry
Was summoned before the War Ministry and accused of ignoring a draft notice from the Italian Royal Navy
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1936· 1 entry
Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, and the expansion of what the regime regarded as the Italian "colonial empire", brought the question of "race" to the forefront
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1933· 1 entry
As was expected of all young Italian schoolboys, he joined the Avanguardisti movement for young Fascists
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1929· 1 entry
Mussolini signed the Lateran Treaty with the Catholic Church, which established Catholicism as the State religion, allowed the Church to influence many sectors of education and public life, and relegated other religions
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1925· 1 entry
Entered the Felice Rignon primary school in Turin
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1921· 1 entry
Anna Maria, Levi's sister, was born, and he remained close to her all her life
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1919· 1 entry
In Turin, at Corso Re Umberto 75, into a liberal Jewish family
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1918· 1 entry
Born 1918-07-31.
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