Gilbert Adair

Date of birth

29 Dec 1944

82 years ago at Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Gilbert Adair was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist.

Biography

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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