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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 third work of nonfiction, ''Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'', 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 |language=en}}</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" />▼
 
▲Kurlansky wrote his first book, ''A Continent of Islands'', in 1992 and went on to write several more throughout the 1990s. His third work of nonfiction, ''Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'', 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 |language=en}}</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>
 
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==
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* ''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===
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* 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" />
 
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