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Gilbert Adair

Gilbert Adair

Writer · 1944–2011 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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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)

Wrote 6

2010s

  1. 2016

    The Carer

    Writer

  2. 2012

1990s

  1. 1998

    Love and Death on Long Island

    Novel

1980s

  1. 1981

    The Territory

    Writer

Appearances2

2000s

  1. 2004

    Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’

    Self

1990s

  1. 1996

    François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death

    Self