Gilbert Adair
Personal Info
Known ForWriting
BornDecember 29, 1944
DiedDecember 8, 2011 (aged 66)
Place of BirthEdinburgh, Scotland, UK
Gilbert Adair
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)
