Rose Book-Collecting Prize winner 2011-2012

The winner of this year's Rose Book-Collecting Prize is Alessandro Bianchi of Robinson College, for his collection Japanese Popular Publications before the Twentieth Century. Alessandro is studying for a PhD in Japanese Studies, focussing on early-modern literature, and is the sixth winner of the student book-collecting prize, endowed in 2006 by Professor James H. Marrow and Dr Emily Rose in honour of Dr Rose's parents, Daniel and Joanna Rose. He receives £500 and 10 years' membership of the Friends of the University Library