Gilbert Adair
Birth date
December 29, 1944
Death date
December 8, 2011
Place of birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Profession
Writing
Age
66 years
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)
