Gilbert Adair

Born

1944-12-29

Died

2011-12-08

Birthplace

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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)