Question: "In Siberia" is a travel book that was selected as one of the books of the year by a trio of people including a British novelist born in what year?
Context: Barbara (Louise) Trapido, born 1941 as Barbara Schuddeboom, is a British novelist born in South Africa with German, Danish and Dutch ancestry.  Born in Cape Town and growing up in Durban she studied at the University of Natal gaining a BA in 1963 before emigrating to London.  After many years teaching, she became a full-time writer in 1970. The Thomas Cook Travel Book Award originated as an initiative of Thomas Cook AG in 1980, with the aim of encouraging and rewarding the art of literary travel writing.  The awards stopped in 2005 (2004 being the last year an award was given).  As of 2008, the only other travel book award in Britain is the Dolman Best Travel Book Award, begun in 2006. Grantchester Grind is a novel written by Tom Sharpe, a British novelist born in 1928 who was educated at Lancing College and then at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, FRSA, FRSL (Japanese: カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄 ; born 8 November 1954) is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer.  He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five.  Ishiguro obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. Tom Ang is a photographer, author, traveller and academic.  In 1979 he was a founding member of Wandsworth Photo Co-op which grew into Photofusion, London's largest independent photography resource A specialist in travel and digital photography, he has photographed extensively in Central Asia.  He won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for best Illustrated Travel Book.  He is the author of 25 books on photography and video. Robert Edric (born 14 April 1956) is the pseudonym of Gary Edric Armitage, a British novelist born in Sheffield.  Nick Rennison has suggested that Edric might be "the finest and most adventurous writer of historical fiction of his generation". This is a list of works by Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851), the British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" (1818).  She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Until the 1970s, Mary Shelley was known mainly for her efforts to publish Percy Shelley's works and for "Frankenstein".  Recent scholarship has yielded a more comprehensive view of Mary Shelley’s achievements, however.  Scholars have shown increasing interest in her literary output, particularly in her novels, which include the historical novels "Valperga" (1823) and "Perkin Warbeck" (1830), the apocalyptic novel "The Last Man" (1826), and her final two novels, "Lodore" (1835) and "Falkner" (1837).  Studies of her lesser-known works such as the travel book "Rambles in Germany and Italy" (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia" (1829–46) support the growing view that Mary Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life.  Mary Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practised by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society.  This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic Romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and Enlightenment political theories. William "Bill" Dolman (Reverend Doctor) was H.M.Coroner for the Northern District of London from 1993 to 2007.  During his career he held over 8000 inquests, including a "suicide by cop", the first such case in English legal history.  He is the only Coroner to have been a regular BBC broadcaster, providing medical advice for 25 years to the 6 million regular listeners of the Jimmy Young Show.  He founded the Dolman Best Travel Book Award in 2006, the only travel book award in the country (as of its founding), given to the best travel book published during the previous year. An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan (1999) is a travel book written by British travel writer Jason Elliot.  "An Unexpected Light" won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in the UK and became a "New York Times" bestseller in the US. In Siberia is a 1999 travel book by the English writer Colin Thubron.  Published in 1999, the book depicts Thubron's journeys in Siberia in the late 1990s, after the fall of communism.  The book is the last of what is regarded as Thubron's "Russia trilogy", comprising "Among the Russians" (1981), "The Lost Heart of Asia" (1994) and "In Siberia" (1999).  The book was widely praised by critics.  Jan Morris, Kazuo Ishiguro and Anthony Sattin selected it as one of their books of the year.
Answer: 1954