Person
Gilbert Adair
- Known for
- Writing
- Birthday
- 1944-12-29
- Place of birth
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 2011-12-08
- Popularity
- 1
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)
