Colin Thubron
Auteur de L’ombre de la route de la soie
A propos de l'auteur
Colin Thubron is the prizewinning, bestselling author of several travel books.
Séries
Œuvres de Colin Thubron
Oeuvres associées
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos (2013) — Directeur de publication; Introduction, quelques éditions — 657 exemplaires
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Thubron, Colin Gerald Dryden
- Date de naissance
- 1939-06-14
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Études
- Eton College
- Professions
- novelist
travel writer
documentary filmmaker - Relations
- Grazia, Margreta de (wife)
- Organisations
- Royal Society of Literature
- Prix et distinctions
- 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) - Courte biographie
- 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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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 34
- Aussi par
- 13
- Membres
- 6,250
- Popularité
- #3,923
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 109
- ISBN
- 310
- Langues
- 12
- Favoris
- 15
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