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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 started his career as a playwright. He was a theatre major at college and wrote seven or eight plays. A couple of these were produced. But he said that he became 'frustrated with theatre, which is to say I became frustrated with Broadway.'<ref>{{Cite web |last=editsuite99 |date=2020-06-19 |title=INTERVIEW WITH MARK KURLANSKY |url=https://artsmania.ca/2020/06/19/interview-with-mark-kurlansky/ |access-date=2023-07-20 |website=ARTSMANIA |language=en}}</ref>
From 1976 to 1991, he worked as a correspondent in Western Europe for the ''[[Miami Herald]]'', ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', and eventually the
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" />
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