Gilbert Adair

Birthday: 12/29/1944
Deathday: 12/8/2011
Place of birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Fame for: Writing

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)