Italian-Jew writer and chemist, who gained first fame with his autobiographical story SE QUESTO È UN UOMO (If This is a Man, 1947) of survival in Nazi concentration camps. devoted the last fourty years of his life to attempts to deal with the fact that he survived Auschwitz. published also poetry, science fiction, essays, and short stories. was born in Turin. Just before the Fascist racial law of 1938 forbade Jews access to academic status, started his chemistry studies at the University of Turin and graduated in 1941. wrote also for th ....