ACCOUNT OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE WINS BOOK AWARD

Jerusalem Post
May 7 2007

An account of the Armenian genocide written by a visiting professor
at the University of Minnesota won a Minnesota Book Award this weekend.

Taner Akcam was honored for writing "A Shameful Act: The Armenian
Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility."

Judges called it a "pioneering work" and "scrupulous account of Turkish
responsibility for the killing of close to 1 million Armenians" and
praised Akcam and his publisher, Metropolitan Books, for "challenging
the country’s 90-plus-year denial of intentional genocide."

Akcam left Turkey in the 1970s after being prosecuted, jailed,
threatened, vilified and harassed.