Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron; CBE FRSL (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist.

In 2008; The Times ranked him 45th on their list of 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 CBE in the 2007 New Year Honours. He is a Fellow and; as of 2010; President of the Royal Society of Literature.

Colin Thubron has travelled extensively in and written about Asia; as well as Europe and the Middle East. Pictures From History Hampsterone