Gilbert Adair

Writing

Born: Dec 29, 1944
Died: Dec 8, 2011 (age 66)
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Movies: 6

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)