Were both Primo Levi and Bryce Courtenay advertising directors?
Primo Levi Primo Michele Levi (] ; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. His best-known works include "If This Is a Man" (1947) (U.S.: "Survival in Auschwitz"), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and his unique work, "The Periodic Table" (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever written.
Steven Blaney Steven Blaney PC, MP (born April 8, 1965) is a Canadian businessman and Conservative politician. He served as the minister of Public Safety Canada (July 15, 2013 – November 4, 2015) and previously as the minister of Veterans Affairs and minister of State for La Francophonie in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper (May 18, 2011 – July 14, 2013). He has represented the Québec riding of Lévis—Bellechasse in the Canadian House of Commons since the 2006 federal election. Despite his Anglophone-sounding name, Blaney is a Francophone. He was reelected in the 2015 election.