Gilbert Adair
Novelist, Author
1944 – 2011
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Who was Gilbert Adair?
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 and The Dreamers.
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- Born
- Dec 29, 1944
Kilmarnock - Also known as
- Heurtebise
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Profession
- Lived in
- Edinburgh
- Paris
- Died
- Dec 8, 2011
London
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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