Colin Thubron
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Colin Thubron is the prizewinning, bestselling author of several travel books.
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Een onvoltooide reis : van de IJzeren Poort naar Athos (2013) — Redacteur; Introductie, sommige edities — 656 exemplaren
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Medewerker — 21 exemplaren
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- Officiële naam
- Thubron, Colin Gerald Dryden
- Geboortedatum
- 1939-06-14
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- England
UK - Geboorteplaats
- London, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
- Opleiding
- Eton College
- Beroepen
- novelist
travel writer
documentary filmmaker - Relaties
- Grazia, Margreta de (wife)
- Organisaties
- Royal Society of Literature
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Order of the British Empire (Commander, 2006)
Royal Scottish Geographical Society Mungo Park Medal (2000)
Royal Society for Asian Affairs Lawrence of Arabia Medal (2001)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1969) - Korte biografie
- Colin Thubron was born in London on 14 June 1939. Educated at Eton College, he worked briefly for the publishers Hutchinson and as a freelance television film-maker in Turkey, Japan and Morocco. His first book, Mirror to Damascus, was published in 1967. He continued to write about the Middle East in The Hills of Adonis: A Quest in Lebanon (1968) and Jerusalem (1969).
Among the Russians (1983) describes a journey he made by car through western Russia during the Brezhnev era. Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (1987) won both the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. The Lost Heart of Asia (1994) narrates his travels through the newly-independent central Asian republics, exploring the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union on the region. He returned to Russia for his most recent travel narrative, In Siberia (1999).
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1969, Colin Thubron is a regular contributor and reviewer for magazines and newspapers including The Times, the Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator. He lives in London. His latest travel books are Shadows of the Silk Road (2006), an account of his 7,000-mile journey along the route of the Silk Road; and To a Mountain in Tibet (2011), about his pilgrimage to sacred Mount Kailas.
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