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'''Mark Kurlansky''' (December 7, 1948) is an American journalist and writerauthor of general interest non-fiction. Hewho has written a number of books of fiction and non-fictionnonfiction. His 1997 book, ''Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'' (1997), was an international bestseller and was translated into more than 15fifteen languages. His book ''[[Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea|Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea]]'' (2006) was the non-fictionnonfiction winner of the 2007 [[Dayton Literary Peace Prize]].
 
==Life and work==
Kurlansky was born in [[Hartford, Connecticut]] on December 7, 1948.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url = http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/BiographiesDetailsPage/BiographiesDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Biographies&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000125711&source=Bookmark&u=mlin_n_umass&jsid=dec5904bea83289174253ad3fa4f99b0|title = Contemporary Authors Online|date = 2012|access-date = January 13, 2016|website = Biography in Context|publisher = Gale}}</ref> He attended [[Butler University]], where he earned a BA in 1970.<ref name=":0" /> He Fromstarted 1976his tocareer 1991as hea workedplaywright. asHe was a correspondenttheatre inmajor Westernat Europecollege forand thewrote ''[[Miamiseven Herald]]''or eight plays, ''[[Thea Philadelphiafew Inquirer]]''of which were produced. But he said that he became "frustrated with theatre, andwhich eventuallyis theto [[Paris]]-basedsay ''[[InternationalI Heraldbecame Tribune]]''.<reffrustrated name=with Broadway":0" />.<ref>{{Cite web |urllast=editsuite99 |date=June http19, 2020 |title=Interview with Mark Kurlansky |url=https://icartsmania.galegroup.comca/ic2020/bic106/BiographiesDetailsPage19/BiographiesDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&displayinterview-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Biographies&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CK1649571367&source=Bookmark&u=mlin_n_umass&jsid=763191edd23479d2096202f5f526c8db|title = The Writers Directory|date =with-mark-kurlansky/ 2015|access-date =July January 1320, 20162023 |website = Biography in Context|publisher = GaleARTSMANIA}}</ref> He moved to [[Mexico]] in 1982, where he continued to practice journalism. In 2007 he was named the [[Baruch College]] Harman writer-in-residence.<ref name=":0" />
 
From 1976 to 1991, he worked as a correspondent in Western Europe for the ''[[Miami Herald]]'', ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', and eventually the Paris-based ''[[International Herald Tribune]]''.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/BiographiesDetailsPage/BiographiesDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Biographies&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CK1649571367&source=Bookmark&u=mlin_n_umass&jsid=763191edd23479d2096202f5f526c8db|title = The Writers Directory|date = 2015|access-date = January 13, 2016|website = Biography in Context|publisher = Gale}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=editsuite99 |date=June 19, 2020 |title=Interview with Mark Kurlansky |url=https://artsmania.ca/2020/06/19/interview-with-mark-kurlansky/ |access-date=July 20, 2023 |website=ARTSMANIA}}</ref> He moved to Mexico in 1982, where he continued to practice journalism. In 2007, he was named the [[Baruch College]] Harman writer-in-residence.<ref name=":0" />
Kurlansky wrote his first book, ''A Continent of Islands'', in 1992 and went on to write several more throughout the 1990s. His 1997 book ''Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'' was an international bestseller and was translated into more than 15 languages. His work and contribution to [[Basques|Basque]] identity and culture was recognized in 2001 when the Society of Basque Studies in America named him to the Basque Hall of Fame.<ref name=":0" /> That same year, he was awarded an honorary ambassadorship from the Basque government.<ref name=":0" />▼
 
▲Kurlansky wrote his first book, ''A Continent of Islands'', in 1992 and went on to write several more throughout the 1990s. His 1997third bookwork of nonfiction, ''Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'', was won the 1998 James Beard Award.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Awards Search {{!}} James Beard Foundation |url=https://www.jamesbeard.org/awards/search?categories%5BBook%5D=&page=12 |access-date=August 3, 2022 |website=www.jamesbeard.org}}</ref> It became an international bestseller and was translated into more than 15 languages. His work and contribution to [[Basques|Basque]] identity and culture was recognized in 2001 when the Society of Basque Studies in America named him to the Basque Hall of Fame.<ref name=":0" /> That same year, he was awarded an honorary ambassadorship from the Basque government.<ref name=":0" />
As a teenager, Kurlansky called [[Émile Zola]] his "hero", and in 2009 he translated one of Zola's novels, ''[[The Belly of Paris]]'', whose theme is the food markets of Paris.<ref name=bop>[http://paris-expat.com/books/interviews/mark-kurlansky/ "A Conversation with Mark Kurlansky, translator of Zola’s Classic"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120232858/http://paris-expat.com/books/interviews/mark-kurlansky/ |date=January 20, 2015 }}, conversation with Terrance Gelenter</ref>▼
 
▲As a teenager, Kurlansky called [[Émile Zola]] his "hero", and in 2009, he translated one of Zola's novels, ''[[The Belly of Paris]]'', whose theme is the food markets of Paris.<ref name=bop>[http://paris-expat.com/books/interviews/mark-kurlansky/ "A Conversation with Mark Kurlansky, translator of Zola’s Classic"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120232858/http://paris-expat.com/books/interviews/mark-kurlansky/ |date=January 20, 2015 }}, conversation with Terrance Gelenter</ref>
Kurlansky's 2009 book ''The Food of a Younger Land'', with the lengthy subtitle "A portrait of American food – before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional – from the lost [[Works Progress Administration|WPA]] files", details American foodways in the early 20th century.▼
 
▲Kurlansky's 2009 book, ''The Food of a Younger Land'', with the lengthy subtitle "A portrait of American food – before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional – from the lost [[Works Progress Administration|WPA]] files", details American [[foodways]] in the early 20th century.
 
==Publications==
===Nonfiction===
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?110348-1/cod-biography-fish Presentation by Kurlansky on ''Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'', August 15, 1998], [[C-SPAN]]| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?168440-1/salt-world-history Presentation by Kurlansky on ''Salt: A World History'', January 29, 2002], [[C-SPAN]]| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?180017-1/1968-year-rocked-world Presentation by Kurlansky on ''1968: The Year That Rocked the World'', January 14, 2004], [[C-SPAN]]| video4 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?287082-1/the-food-younger-land Presentation by Kurlansky on ''The Food of a Younger Land'', May 14, 2009], [[C-SPAN]]| video5 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?410275-7/mark-kurlansky-discusses-paper Presentation by Kurlansky on ''Paper: Paging Through History'', June 12, 2016], [[C-SPAN]]}}
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* ''A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny'' (1992), Addison-Wesley Publishing. {{ISBN|0-201-52396-5}}
* ''A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry'' (1995), {{ISBN|0-201-60898-7}}
* ''Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'' (1997), {{ISBN|0-8027-1326-2}}<ref>{{cite web|first1=Richard|last1=Wolkomir|access-date=March 3, 2020-03-03|title=Review of 'Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/review-of-cod-a-biography-of-the-fish-that-changed-the-world-152948483/ |website=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]}}</ref>
* ''The Basque History of the World'' (1999), {{ISBN|0-8027-1349-1}}
* ''Salt: A World History'' (2002), {{ISBN|0-8027-1373-4}}<ref>{{cite news|first1=Robert|last1=MacFarlane|access-date=March 3, 2020-03-03|title=Observer review: Salt by Mark Kurlansky|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/20/historybooks.features |newspaper=[[The Observer]] |location=London |date=January 20 January, 2002|issn=0029-7712|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
* ''1968: The Year that Rocked the World'' (2004), {{ISBN|0-345-45581-9}}<ref>{{cite news|first1=Peter|last1=Preston|access-date=March 3, 2020-03-03|title=Observer review: 1968 by Mark Kurlansky|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/apr/18/historybooks.features |newspaper=[[The Observer]] |location=London |date=April 17 April, 2004|issn=0029-7712|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
* ''[[The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell]]'' (2006), {{ISBN|0-345-47638-7}}
* ''[[Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea]]'' (2006), {{ISBN|978-0-224-07791-0}}
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* ''Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One'' (2011), {{ISBN|978-0300136609}}
* ''Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man'' (2012), {{ISBN|978-0-385-52705-7}}
* ''Ready for a Brand New Beat: How '"Dancing in the Street'" Became the Anthem for a Changing America'' (2013), {{ISBN|978-1-59448-722-4}}
* ''International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World'' with Talia Kurlansky (2014), {{ISBN|978-1-620-40027-2}}
* ''Paper: Paging Through History'' (2016), {{ISBN|978-0393239614}}<ref>{{cite news|first1=Simon|last1=Garfield|access-date=March 3, 2020-03-03|title=Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/03/paper-paging-through-history-review-mark-kurlansky-rembrandt-gutenberg-picasso-apple-pencil |newspaper=[[The Observer]] |location=London |date=July 3 July, 2016|issn=0029-7712|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
* ''Havana: A Subtropical Delirium'' (2017), {{ISBN|978-1632863911}}
* ''Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas'' (2018), {{ISBN|9781632863843}}
* ''Salmon and the Earth: The History of a Common Fate'' (2019), {{ISBN|978-1938340864}}▼
* ''Bugless: Why Ladybugs, Butterflies, Fireflies, and Bees are Disappearing'' (2019), {{ISBN|978-1547600854}}
▲* ''[[Salmon (book)|Salmon and the Earth: The History of a Common Fate]]'' (20192020), {{ISBN|978-1938340864}}
* ''The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing'' (2021), {{ISBN|978-1635573077}}
* ''The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway'' (2022), {{ISBN|9781642504637}}
* ''The Core of an Onion'' (2023)
 
===Fiction===
* ''The White Man in the Tree, and Other Stories'' (2000), {{ISBN|0-671-03605-X}}
* ''Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music'' (2005), {{ISBN|0-345-44818-9}}
* ''Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts'' (2010), {{ISBN|1-59448-488-0}}
* ''City Beasts: Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife'' (2015), {{ISBN|9781594485879}}
 
===Children's books===
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==Awards==
* 1998: [[James Beard Foundation Award|James A. Beard Award]] for excellence in food writing<ref name=":0" />
* 2006: ''[[Bon Appétit|Bon Appetit]]'' Food Writer of the Year<ref name=":0" />
* 2007: Nonfiction winner of the [[Dayton Literary Peace Prize]] for ''Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From [[Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea|the History of a Dangerous Idea]]'' (2006).<ref name=":0" /><ref>[http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2007-nonfiction_winner.htm "Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea, 2007 nonfiction winner"]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Mark Kurlansky, 2007 Nonfiction Winner|url = http://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2007-nonfiction_winner.htm|website = www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org|access-date = 2016-01-January 13, 2016}}</ref>
* 2007: Honorary Doctor of Letters, [[Butler University]]<ref name=":0" />
* 2011: Gold Award, National Parenting Publications Awards for ''World Without Fish''<ref name=":0" />
* Pluma Plata award for ''Salt''<ref name=":0" />
 
==References==
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