Gilbert Adair

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).

For the protein scientist, see Gilbert Smithson Adair.

Gilbert Adair
Born29 December 1944
Kilmarnock, Scotland
Died8 December 2011(2011-12-08) (aged 66)
London, England
OccupationNovelist, film critic
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction, non-fiction, film criticism
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