Gilbert Adair

Gilbert Adair

Writing
Born
December 29, 1944 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Died
December 8, 2011
Age
Died at age 66

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)

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