Gilbert Adair
Writing
Birthday
1944/12/29
Day of death
2011/12/08 (66 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also know as
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Biography
Gilbert Adair was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. He was critically most famous for the "fiendish" translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel A Void, in which the letter e is not used, but was more widely known for the films adapted from his novels, including Love and Death on Long Island (1997) and The Dreamers (2003)
