| 词条 | Modris Eksteins |
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Modris Eksteins (born December 13, 1943) is a Canadian historian with a special interest in German history and modern culture. Born in Riga, Latvia, his works include Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989), which won the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize and the Trillium Book Award, Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of Our Century (1999), which juxtaposes the history of World War II and Latvia with personal memoir, and won the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, and Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty (2012), which seeks to interpret the enormous posthumous success of Vincent van Gogh and discusses his forger Otto Wacker,[1] and won the 2012 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. His work has been translated into German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Latvian, Japanese, and Chinese. After emigrating to Canada as a child, Eksteins, son of a Baptist minister, settled first in Winnipeg and then in Toronto, where he attended Upper Canada College on scholarship and then the University of Toronto (Trinity College) from which he graduated with a BA in 1965. Meanwhile, he attained a Diploma from Heidelberg University in 1963. He then studied at Oxford University (St. Antony's College) as a Rhodes Scholar, earning his BPhil in 1967, and DPhil in 1970.[2] He joined the Division of Humanities at University of Toronto Scarborough in 1970, retiring as professor emeritus of history in 2010.[3] Works
Notes1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.quillandquire.com/review/solar-dance-genius-forgery-and-the-crisis-of-truth-in-the-modern-age/ | title=Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age review | work=Quill & Quire | date=Feb 2012 | accessdate=April 30, 2015 | author=Dutkiewicz, Jan}} 2. ^Personal web page 3. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.robertfulford.com/Eksteins.html | title=Robert Fulford's column about Modris Eksteins | work=The National Post | date=December 7, 1999 | accessdate=April 30, 2015 | author=Fulford, Robert | authorlink=Robert Fulford (journalist)}} External links{{Wikiquote}}
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