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Gilbert Adair (29 December 1944 – 8 December 2011) 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).
- The Holy Innocents (Adair novel)
The Holy Innocents (1988) is a novel by Gilbert Adair of...
- Gilbert Smithson Adair
Gilbert Smithson Adair. Gilbert Smithson Adair FRS [1]...
- The Holy Innocents (Adair novel)
Gilbert Adair. Writer: The Dreamers. Gilbert Adair was born on 29 December 1944 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for The Dreamers (2003), Blind Revenge (2009) and The Carer (2016).
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- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- London, England, UK
The Holy Innocents (1988) is a novel by Gilbert Adair of three young cinephiles: two French siblings and an American stranger who enters their world. Its themes were inspired [1] by Jean Cocteau's 1929 novel Les Enfants Terribles ( The Holy Terrors) and by the 1950 film of the same name directed by Jean-Pierre Melville .
Gilbert Smithson Adair. Gilbert Smithson Adair FRS [1] (1896–1979) was an early protein scientist who used osmotic pressure measurements to establish that haemoglobin was a tetramer under physiological conditions. This conclusion led him to be the first to identify cooperative binding, in the context of oxygen binding to haemoglobin.
Writer, film critic and journalist Gilbert Adair was born in Edinburgh on 29 December 1944. He was the author of five novels, including The Holy Innocents (1988), which won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, Love and Death on Long Island (1990), which was made into a film by Richard Kwietniowski in 1998, and later, A Closed Book (1999), a literary thriller about a prize-winning novelist left ...
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Faber And Faber Ltd
Dec 13, 2011 · Gilbert Adair, 1944 to 2011, died last week of a brain haemorrhage, days short of being 67. He was born in Edinburgh. He lived in Paris through the '70s. He wrote. He wrote for a time as film ...
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A film critic and novelist, Adair wrote for several British publications including Sight & Sound and for a time was film critic for The Independent On Sunday. His 1990 novel Love & Death On Long Island was filmed in 1997 and he himself adapted another novel, The Dreamers, in 2003. - Read Gilbert Adair's Guardian Obituary - Read Gilbert Adair's Telegraph Obituary
