Gilbert Adair

Writing · Born Dec 29, 1944 · Died Dec 8, 2011 (66) · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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)