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Gilbert Adair (29 December 1944 – 8 December 2011) [1] was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic, and journalist. [2] [3] He was critically most famous for the "fiendish" [4] translation of Georges Perec 's postmodern novel A Void, in which the letter e is not used, [4] but was more widely known for the films adapted from his novels ...
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). He died on 8 December 2011 in London, England, UK.
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Dec 9, 2011 · Fri 9 Dec 2011 08.09 EST. Gilbert Adair was a unique and wonderful writer: a critic of elegance, brilliance, and unquenchable intellectual energy and curiosity. He combined the roles of...
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Dec 8, 2011 · December 08, 2011. Genre. Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction. edit data. Gilbert Adair was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. Born in Edinburgh, he lived in Paris from 1968 through 1980. He is most famous for such novels as Love and Death on Long Island (1997) and The Dreamers (2003), both of which were made into films, although he ...
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Biography. 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 ...
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Dec 11, 2011 · Gilbert Adair, who died last week at the age of 66, was for two years at the end of the last century the chief film critic of The Independent on Sunday. Each week, he filed a column that wasn't...
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