Denis O鈥橦earn, professor of sociology, has won the Alessandro Tassoni Award for 2011 for his book, Il Diario di Bobby Sands: Storia di un ragazzo irlandese (Roma: Castelvecchi Editore), written with Laurence McKeown and Silvia Calamati. The Alessandro Tassoni Award is given each year to a book that (as a homage to the Italian writer Alessandro Tassoni and to his ideals) is recognized by the Jury Award as 鈥渋nnovative, inspired by values of freedom and committed to the building of a more just and democratic world.鈥
Denis O’Hearn
May 10, 2011