Carlo Levi

Carlo Levi (1902–1975) was an Italian physician, writer, and painter. Born in Turin into an upper-middle-class family of assimilated Jews, he was imprisoned in 1934 for his involvement with an antifascist group and subsequently exiled to southern Italy. He drew on his experiences there in his best-known work, Christ Stopped at Eboli, which was translated into 37 languages. Levi also wrote poetry, essays, and travel accounts. After his exile, he joined the French Resistance in Paris and later worked as a writer in Rome.