Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair
29.12.1944 - 08.12.2011 (66 gadi) (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
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).