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Primo Levi

1919 - 1987

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Primo Michele Levi (Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was a Jewish-Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Primo Levi has received more than 1,979,593 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Primo Levi is the 282nd most popular writer (down from 280th in 2019), the 366th most popular biography from Italy (down from 349th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Italian Writer.

Primo Levi is most famous for his memoir about his time in Auschwitz, "Survival in Auschwitz."

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  • 2.0M

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  • 70.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Primo Levi ranks 282 out of 5,755. Before him are Paul Valéry, Antonin Artaud, Marcus Terentius Varro, Shota Rustaveli, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, and Eugenio Montale. After him are Amos Oz, Tomas Tranströmer, Robert Musil, Archilochus, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and Svetlana Alliluyeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Primo Levi ranks 8. Before him are Mikhail Kalashnikov, Eva Perón, J. D. Salinger, Edmund Hillary, Doris Lessing, and Desmond Doss. After him are Zhao Ziyang, Giulio Andreotti, Margot Fonteyn, Lino Ventura, Georgios Papadopoulos, and Nat King Cole. Among people deceased in 1987, Primo Levi ranks 7. Before him are Andy Warhol, Rudolf Hess, Dalida, Carl Rogers, Louis de Broglie, and Rita Hayworth. After him are Lawrence Kohlberg, Fred Astaire, Marguerite Yourcenar, Pola Negri, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Thomas Sankara.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Primo Levi ranks 366 out of 4,668. Before him are Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), Antonio Canova (1757), Mario Draghi (1947), Andrea Bocelli (1958), Eugenio Montale (1896), and Pope Gregory VI (1000). After him are Pope Innocent IV (1195), Simone Martini (1284), Renzo Piano (1937), Antonio da Correggio (1489), Matteo Ricci (1552), and Pope Felix III (440).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Primo Levi ranks 25. Before him are Sallust (-86), Christine de Pizan (1365), Dario Fo (1926), Carlo Goldoni (1707), Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), and Eugenio Montale (1896). After him are Alberto Moravia (1907), Lorenzo Valla (1407), Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863), Ludovico Ariosto (1474), Edmondo De Amicis (1846), and Cornelius Nepos (-100).

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