Primo Levi was a poet and novelist born in Turin, Italy. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Turin. Levi was arrested and imprisoned by Nazis from 1943-44; after World War II, he returned to Turin. While managing a paint factory, he published memoirs and fiction.
Works by Levi include If This is a Man (1947, republished and retitled a few times) and The Drowned and the Saved (1987), as well as the short story collections The Periodic Table (1975) and The Sixth Day and Other Stories (1990), and the novel If Not Now, When? (1986). His poetry is collected in Collected Poems: Primo Levi (1988), pulling from Shema (1976), and Ad Ora Incertal At An Uncertain Hour (1984).
Information from the Poetry Foundation.