Biography

Oliviero Beha was born in Florence and he is one of the most popular journalist in Italy. He worked for different italian newspapers TuttoSport, Paese Sera, La Repubblica, Rinascita, Il Messaggero, Il Mattino, L’Indipendente.

He also worked for television, actually he led in 1987 Va’ pensiero with Andrea Barbato, in 1991 he realized Un terno al lotto, in 1995 he realized and presented Video Zorro. He worked in many trasmissions also fro the radio: Radio Zorro, Radioacolori and Beha a colori.

Oliviera Beha wons many awards for his theatrical plots and poetries: All’ultimo stadio (Selezione Bancarella), Anni di cuoio (Premio Chianciano), Inverso (Selezione Viareggio, Premio Biella), Ripercussioni (Premio Capua-Mediterraneo).

In 2004 Marco Troppa Editor published Beha’s book Sono stato io. In 2005 Oliviero Beha published Crescete & prostituitevi (BUR) e Trilogia della censura (Avagliano). He is also professor of Sociologia della comunicazione at La Sapienza University of Rome.

Motivation for the attribution of the Liberation Award

Oliviero Beha has invented a new way to talk about Sport.

About 20 years ago he collaborated to the realization of a new TV format that is still used and that showed how Beha has been able to talk about sport in an intelligent and refined way.

He has been the first one to denounce scandals, actually he has been always looking for the truth and he has always managed to show in a critic way the dark backstage of Italian world of soccer.

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