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1919 – 1987Primo Levi (1919-1987)Died 11 April 1987, aged 67Levi was an Italian chemist and writer best known for If This Is a Man, his memoir of surviving imprisonment at Auschwitz. His writing became central to Holocaust literature worldwide. He died at his home in Turin in a fall ruled by authorities to be suicide.