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Colin Gerald Dryden ThubronCBE FRSL FRAS (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist.[1] In 2008, The Times ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers.[2] He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books,[3]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, between 2009 and 2017, was President of the Royal Society of Literature.[4]
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^"The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Times. 5 January 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
^[1], New York Review of Books,
^"The Royal Society of Literature". The Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
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Nabokov and Happiness". Lila Azam Zanganeh (Author), W.W. Norton. "ColinThubron and Tom Phillips join Lola Young on 2017 Man Booker jury". the Guardian...
extraordinary debut in travel writing since Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia". ColinThubron considered the book to be a "surreal masterpiece". His second book The...
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