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UK / England: Colin Thubron (1939 - ), travel writer and novelist. Hampsterone, 4 November 2010

UK / England: Colin Thubron (1939 - ), travel writer and novelist. Hampsterone, 4 November 2010

Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, CBE FRSL (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist.

In 2008, The Times ranked him 45th on their list of the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a CBE in the 2007 New Year Honours. He is a Fellow and, as of 2010, President of the Royal Society of Literature.

Colin Thubron has travelled extensively in and written about Asia, as well as Europe and the Middle East.

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