Colin Thubron

Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron FRSL ( born June 14, 1939 in London ) is a British writer who also wrote novels next trip reports and won awards including the Hawthornden Prize.

Life

After attending Eton College, he was briefly worked for the publisher Hutchinson and then as a freelance filmmaker for television in Turkey, Japan and Morocco. His literary debut was in 1967 with the book Mirror to Damascus, with the The Hills of Adonis: A Quest in Lebanon (1968 ) and Jerusalem (1969), two more books on the Middle East followed. In The Hills of Adonis, he also reported on the adventuress Hester Stanhope, the legendary and eccentric through a local "empire" prevailed in the Druze mountains of Lebanon between 1810 and her death in 1839.

In 1969 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and wrote in the following years regularly contributes articles and book reviews in magazines and newspapers such as The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator such as Rory MacLean's book Stalin's Nose.

In 1978, his historical Roman Emperor, who plays in 312, while in Among The Russians (1983 ) describes a road trip through the western Soviet Union during the final phase of the Brezhnev era. In his 1981 book The Ancient Mariners, he dealt with issues such as ships of antiquity and boatbuilding and shipping in Ancient Egypt.

In the novel, A Cruel Madness ( 1984) he received the Macmillan Silver Pen Award from the British PEN Centre. For his travelogue Behind the Wall: A Journey through China (1987 ), he won both the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

Subsequently, the novels Falling and Turning Back the Sun (1991 ), a story of love in exile published. In the book The Lost Heart of Asia (1994 ), he tells of his travels in the newly independent republics in Central Asia recently and exploring the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union in the region. Based on the novel Distance (1996 ) about a man suffering from amnesia, he traveled again to Russia, then with In Siberia (1999) was his most recent trip report about this country.

Thubron, who lives in London, wrote in To the Last City ( 2002), another novel in which he tells the story of a tour group in Peru. After the trip reports Shadows of the Silk Road (2006 ) published a representation of its approximately eleven thousand kilometers long journey on the ancient Silk Road from China to Turkey, and most recently, To a Mountain in Tibet ( 2011), about his pilgrimage to the sacred Mount Kailash.

Since 2010 he has also been President of the Royal Society of Literature.

More Releases

  • Journey into Cyprus, 1975
  • The God in the Mountain, 1977
  • The Venetians, 1980
  • The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1982
  • The Silk Road: Beyond the Celestial Kingdom, 1989
  • Edited by Artemis Cooper: Patrick Leigh Fermor: The interrupted journey. From Iron Gate to Mount Athos. The third part of travel, from the English by Manfred Allié and Gabriele Kempf - Allié (AKA The Broken Road), Dörlemann Verlag Zurich, ISBN 9,783,908,777,953th
  • The Hills of Adonis: encounter with Lebanon, original The Hills of Adonis: A Quest in Lebanon, 1970
  • Cyprus, original title Journey into Cyrpus, 1976, ISBN 3-7913-0378-3
  • Jerusalem, 1976
  • Istanbul, 1978, ISBN 90-6182-276-9
  • The Venetians, original title The Venetians, 1981, ISBN 90-6182-415- X
  • The mariners of antiquity, original title The Ancient Mariners, 1982, ISBN 90-6182-410-9
  • Among Russians, original title Among The Russians, 1984, ISBN 3-7913-0678-2
  • In the garden of the Dragon: Chinese interiors, original title Behind the Wall: A Journey through China, 1989, ISBN 3-8052-0480-9
  • Star days, original title Distance, 1998, ISBN 3-548-24339-8
  • Siberia: sleeping earth - awakening land, original title in Siberia, 2001, ISBN 3-608-94005-7
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