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Gilbert Adair (Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist)

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Adair, Gilbert
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Person
Gender
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Date of birth
1944-12-29
Place of birth
Edinburgh
Date of death
2011-12-08
Place of death
London

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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).

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