Primo Levi (1919–1987)

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1. Primo Levi

   Author of The Periodic Table, The Truce, The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology

2. Italo Calvino

   Author of Italian Folktales, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Marcovaldo, or the seasons in the city
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3. W.G. Sebald

   Author of Austerlitz, The Rings of Saturn, On the Natural History of Destruction

4. Bruce Chatwin

   Author of The Songlines, In Patagonia, What Am I Doing Here?

5. Pat Barker

   Author of Regeneration, Another World, War Talk (Pocket Penguins)

6. Gustave Flaubert

   Author of Sentimental Education, Three Tales, Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

7. Marguerite Yourcenar

   Author of Memoirs of Hadrian, The Abyss, Met open ogen : gesprekken met Matthieu Galey

8. Robert Graves

   Author of Goodbye to All That, Caligula (Pocket Penguins 70's)

9. Stendhal

   Author of The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma

10. Italo Svevo

    Author of Confessions of Zeno, As a Man Grows Older, The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl

11. Saul Bellow

    Author of Herzog, Humboldt's Gift, Mr Sammler's Planet

12. Dino Buzzati

    Author of The Tartar Steppe, Un amore, Restless Nights: Selected Stories of Dino Buzzati

13. Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Author of The Collected Stories, The Family Moskat, The Magician of Lublin

14. Christopher R. Browning

    Author of Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

15. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

    Author of Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

16. Joseph Roth

    Author of The Radetzky March, Job: The Story of a Simple Man, The Emperor's Tomb

17. J. G. Farrell

    Author of The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles

18. Antonio Tabucchi

    Author of Pereira declares, The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro, Notturno indiano

19. Hannah Arendt

    Author of Eichmann in Jerusalem

20. Luigi Pirandello

    Author of The Late Mattia Pascal, One, No One & One Hundred Thousand