# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-thubron
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:57:31.443Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-thubron"
name: "Colin Thubron"
slug: "colin-thubron"
description: "Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, The Times ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, 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 Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours. He is a Fellow and, between 2009 and 2017, was President of the Royal Society of Literature."
tagline: "President of the Royal Society of Literature"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Colin_Thubron.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-06-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.48
  momentum:             0.4983388704318937
  historical:           9.723546666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "كولين ثوبرون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Колин Таброн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Colin Thubron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thubron"
    title: "Colin Thubron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thubron"
    title: "Colin Thubron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thubron"
    title: "Colin Thubron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thubron"
    title: "Colin Thubron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thubron"
    title: "Colin Thubron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thubron"
    title: "Colin Thubron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thubron"
    title: "Colin Thubron"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Thubron"
    title: "Colin Thubron"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1108739"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump