VJ Books Presents Author Colin Thubron!
 Colin Thubron (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and an award-winning novelist. He was educated at Eton College, worked briefly for the publisher Hutchinson and as a freelance television film-maker in Turkey, Japan and Morocco. His first book, Mirror to Damascus, was published in 1967.
Thubron has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1969. He is a regular contributor and reviewer for magazines and newspapers including The Times, the Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator.
He lives in London.
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Colin Thubron Select Bibliography
Novels
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The God in the Mountain - 1977
- Emperor - 1978
- A Cruel Madness - 1984
- Falling - 1989
- Turning Back the Sun - 1991
- Distance - 1996
- To the Last City - 2002
- Night of Fire - January 2017
Colin Thubron Awards
- 1967 Book Society Choice, Mirror to Damascus
- 1985 PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, A Cruel Madness
- 1988 Hawthornden Prize, Behind the Wall: A journey through China
- 1988 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, Behind the Wall: A Journey through China
- 1991 Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society
- 2000 Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
- 2001 Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs
- 2002 Hon.D Lit University of Warwick
- 2003-9 Vice-President, The Royal Society of Literature
- 2007 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), New Year's Honours
- 2008 Society of Authors Travel Award
- 2009 President, The Royal Society of Literature
- 2010 Prix Bouvier, France, In Siberia
- 2011 Ness Award of the Royal Geographical Society
- 2014 International Prize, Spanish Geographical Society
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