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Alexander Boldizar (born in Czechoslovakia, now Slovak Republic, 1971) is a writer, lawyer and art critic. He was the first post-independence Slovak citizen to graduate with a ''Juris Doctor'' degree from Harvard Law School.〔http://haa.harvard.edu〕〔http://www.hlrecord.org/arts-culture/alexander-boldizar-from-law-school-to-novelist-and-art-critic-1.1266491〕〔http://transitionmagazine.com/articles/lena.htm〕 His writing has won a PEN prize (PEN/Nob Hill),〔http://soulmakingcontest.us/page7.html〕 represented Bread Loaf Writer's Conference as a nominee for the Best New American Voices anthology,〔http://middlebury.edu/academics/blwc〕 and received various other awards. ==Life== Born in Košice, Czechoslovakia, in 1971, Boldizar's family escaped to Austria via Yugoslavia in 1979. After six months in a refugee camp at Traiskirchen, Austria, Canada granted the family asylum. Boldizar became a Canadian citizen in 1983. He attended Merivale High School in Ottawa, where he was captain of the rugby team, followed by McGill University, from which he graduated in 1994 with the Brian Coughlan prize for highest GPA in the economics department.〔http://www.mcgill.ca/economics/contact〕 He also won the 1993 McGill Open Beer Mile championship.〔http://www.beermile.com〕 Boldizar went on to study law at Harvard Law School, starting in the class of 1998 but finishing in the class of 1999 due to a year of absence during which he went to the Sahara (Niger, Africa) with a paleontological expedition for the Discovery Channel/National Geographic. Although Boldizar had renounced his Czechoslovak citizenship in 1989 so that he could attend the anticommunist demonstrations as a noncitizen (during which he was almost arrested anyway), President Rudolf Schuster of Slovakia revived Boldizar's citizenship by special presidential order in 1999, making him the first Slovak citizen to graduate with a ''JD'' from Harvard. Boldizar's grandfather, Vojtech Zahorsky, was recently awarded the Kosice Prize (i.e., "keys to the city") for his contributions as a partisan during WWII and his service as the head of the Slovak Veteran's Association.〔http://cassovia.sk/newsread.php?newsid=512〕 Boldizar currently lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He won first place in his division at the British Columbia Brazilian jiu-jitsu Championships in both 2010 and 2011,〔http://northvanbjj.com/Blog/Entries/2011/3/7_NVBJJ_wins_4_Golds_@_B.C._Championships.html〕 and a gold medal at the 2011 Pan American Championships.〔http://www.ibjjf.org/results/2011pan.htm〕〔http://www.bclocalnews.com/greater_vancouver/northshoreoutlook/sports/118939589.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Boldizar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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