Primo Levi Panel: 2016 National Book Festival

Primo Levi, the preeminent writer on the Holocaust who died in 1987, is celebrated in a panel discussion featuring Ann Goldstein, translator of Primo Levi's work and editor of "The Complete Works of Primo Levi" and her colleague Adam Gopnik, cultural critic for the New Yorker and author of "Winter: Five Windows on the Season." The panel is moderated by Michael Abramowitz with commentary from Alessandro Cassin of the Centro Primo Levi in New York. This program at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C. was made possible through collaboration with the Embassy of Italy, the Centro Primo Levi and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Speaker Biography: Adam Gopnik is a writer and best-selling author who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1986. He has received three National Magazine Awards for essays and criticism, a George Polk Award for magazine reporting, the Canadian National Magazine Award Gold Medal for arts writing and the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Republic. Gopnik's published books include "Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York," "Paris to the Moon," "Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life," "Winter: Five Windows on the Season" and the novel "The King in the Window." His latest book is "The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food". Gopnik lives with his family in New York.
Speaker Biography: Ann Goldstein is a writer and translator best-known for her translations of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet. Goldstein joined the staff of The New Yorker as a proofreader and copyeditor in 1974, and she was promoted to editor and head of the copy department in 1987, positions she has held ever since. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, a Fellowship of the American Academy in Rome and a PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award. The latest book translated and edited by Goldstein, "The Complete Works of Primo Levi," features translations of Levi's "The Periodic Table," "The Drowned and the Saved," "The Truce," "Natural Histories," "Flaw of Form," "The Wrench," "Lilith," "Other People's Trades" and "If Not Now, When?"-as well as all of Levi's poems, essays and other nonfiction work, some of which have not appeared before in English.
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