Trillium Book Award
1 appearances
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Edition 3 (1989) Winner
Modris Eksteins
モドリス・エクシュテインズ
Modoris Ekushuteinsu
Aliases:
Modris Ekšteins
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1943-12-13 （Riga）
- Nationality
- Latvian, Canadian
- Languages
- Latvian, English
- Religion
- Baptist
- Residence History
- Winnipeg → Toronto
Career
- Occupations
- historian
- Active Years
- 1969-2010
- Affiliations
- University of Toronto Scarborough
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heidelberg University | — | History | Diploma | — | Germany |
| University of Toronto | Trinity College | Humanities | BA | — | Canada |
| Oxford University | St. Antony's College | History | BPhil | — | United Kingdom |
| Oxford University | St. Antony's College | History | DPhil | — | United Kingdom |
Heidelberg University
History
Degree:
Diploma
Year of Graduation:
1963
Country:
Germany
University of Toronto
Trinity College
/ Humanities
Degree:
BA
Year of Graduation:
1965
Country:
Canada
Oxford University
St. Antony's College
/ History
Degree:
BPhil
Year of Graduation:
1967
Country:
United Kingdom
Rhodes Scholar
Oxford University
St. Antony's College
/ History
Degree:
DPhil
Year of Graduation:
1970
Country:
United Kingdom
Rhodes Scholar
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Wallace K. Ferguson Prize | Rites of Spring | — | Canadian Historical Association | 受賞 |
| 1989 | Trillium Book Award | Rites of Spring | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1999 | Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize | Walking Since Daybreak | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2013 | British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction | Solar Dance | — | — | 受賞 |
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize
1989
Work:
Rites of Spring
Organization:
Canadian Historical Association
Result:
受賞
Trillium Book Award
1989
Work:
Rites of Spring
Result:
受賞
Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
1999
Work:
Walking Since Daybreak
Result:
受賞
British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
2013
Work:
Solar Dance
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
1 appearances
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Edition 3 (1999) Winner
Works
Major Works
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
1989 HistoryA history of World War I and the birth of the modern age
World War IModern culture
Translations
- German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Latvian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese
Bibliography
- Theodor Heuss und die Weimarer Republik (1969)
- The Limits of Reason: The German Democratic Press and the Collapse of Weimar Democracy (1975)
- Nineteenth-Century Germany (1983)
- Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989)
- Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of Our Century (1999)
- Diaghilev Was Here (2005)
- Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty (2012)
Legacy
Latvian Canadian historian specializing in German history and modern culture