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Gilbert Adair

Scottish writer, journalist, translator, film critic and poet (1944-2011) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 66

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...

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Scott Moncrieff Prize1995

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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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United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1944 to 2011 · aged 66

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