Primo Levi
Italian
1919 – 1987
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 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.
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Benjamin Labatut
Literary Fiction
Benjamin Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World shares Levi’s fascination with technical obsession, dramatising the interior lives of scientists where science and human meaning collide.
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Olga Tokarczuk
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Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights mirrors Primo Levi’s focus on displacement and skilled observation, offering a fragmented, globe-hopping meditation through movement.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Literary Fiction
Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day examines craft and vocation with the same gentleness found in Levi's work, layered with elegiac undercurrents.
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Wallace Stegner
Literary Fiction
Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose shares Primo Levi's intimate focus on skilled, unglamorous work, bringing a similar dignity to an engineer-hero across wilder American terrain.
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Barbara Kingsolver
Literary Fiction
Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead shares Levi’s moral seriousness, warmth, and deep respect for working-class labour and survival under difficult conditions.
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Kathryn Stockett
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