Awards & Winners

Mark Kurlansky

Date of Birth 07-December-1948
Place of Birth Hartford
(United States of America, Connecticut, Hartford County, Area code 959, Area code 860, Area codes 860 and 959)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Writer, Journalist, Author
Mark Kurlansky is an American journalist and writer of general interest non-fiction. Kurlansky's newest book, Ready For a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America, was released July 2013 from Riverhead Books. Kurlansky attended Butler University, where he harbored an early interest in theatre and earned a BA in 1970. However, his interest faded and he began to work as a journalist in the 1970s. During the '70s he worked as a correspondent in Western Europe for the Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and eventually the Paris-based International Herald Tribune. He moved to Mexico in 1982 where he continued to do journalism. He wrote his first book, A Continent of Islands, in 1992 and went on to write several books throughout the 1990s. His 1997 book Cod was an international bestseller and was translated into more than 15 languages. His work and contribution to Basque identity and culture is recognized in the Basque hall of fame. Kurlansky as a teenager called Émile Zola his "hero", and in 2009 Kurlansky translated one of Zola's novels The Belly of Paris whose theme is the food markets of Paris.

Awards by Mark Kurlansky

Check all the awards nominated and won by Mark Kurlansky.

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award The story of salt
4 up

2003


Nominations 2003 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Writing and Literature Salt

1998


James Beard Award for Writing and Literature
Honored for : COD: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Writing and Literature COD: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World