Īs 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. That same year, he was awarded an honorary ambassadorship from the Basque government. His work and contribution to Basque identity and culture was recognized in 2001 when the Society of Basque Studies in America named him to the Basque Hall of Fame. It became an international bestseller and was translated into more than 15 languages. His third work of nonfiction, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, won the 1998 James Beard Award. Kurlansky wrote his first book, A Continent of Islands, in 1992 and went on to write several more throughout the 1990s. In 2007 he was named the Baruch College Harman writer-in-residence. He moved to Mexico in 1982, where he continued to practice journalism.
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. He attended Butler University, where he earned a BA in 1970. Kurlansky was born in Hartford, Connecticut on December 7, 1948. His book Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea (2006) was the non-fiction winner of the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His 1997 book, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (1997), was an international bestseller and was translated into more than 15 languages. He has written a number of books of fiction and non-fiction. Mark Kurlansky (December 7, 1948) is an American journalist and writer of general interest non-fiction.
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