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Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, CBE is a British travel writer and novelist. He was born in London on June 14, 1939 and educated at Eton College. His first travel book, Mirror to Damascus, published in 1968 followed shortly afterwards by The Hills of Adonis: A Quest in Lebanon, a lyrical account of a journey through the country, pre civil-war. Only later did he turn to fiction with his first novel, Emperor, in 1978. His novel, A Cruel Madness, won the 1985 PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. Behind the Wall won both the 1988 Hawthornden and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. In Siberia was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. He is a distant relative of the English writer John Dryden. His latest travel book is Shadows of the Silk Road (2006), an account of his 7,000-mile journey along the route of the Silk Road revisiting the locales of his previous books - The Silk Road and the Lost Heart of Asia. His 2002 novel, To the Last City was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and was his first piece of work to link his travel writing with his fiction. It is about a group of people who set off to explore an Incan ruin, in what has been described as a "Heart of Darkness narrative". In many ways, Thubron's work harks back to an earlier age of travel writing. He is one of the last of the "gentlemen-travellers". He was appointed a CBE in December 2006 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
