# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gilbert-adair
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:27:35.101Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gilbert-adair"
name: "Gilbert Adair"
slug: "gilbert-adair"
description: "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)."
tagline: "Scottish writer, journalist, translator, film critic and poet (1944–2011)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/eWobvNyIPhrJ8kTf59jJqgxylAB.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-12-29"
deathDate: "2011-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.246368
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010434/"
    handle:    "nm0010434"
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    title: "Gilbert Adair"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump