Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair | |
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| Born | 29 December 1944 Edinburgh or Kilmarnock, Scotland |
| Died | 8 December 2011 (aged 66) London, England |
| Occupation | Novelist, film critic |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction, non-fiction, film criticism |
Gilbert Adair (29 December 1944 – 8 December 2011) 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).