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Gilbert Adair
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 57
Top works
- Wenn die Postmoderne zweimal klingelt
- Letters
- Steakweasel
- Blindband
- Void
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Film & TV
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)
Known for
- Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’ — Self2004
- François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death — Self1996
- The Sorceror's Apprentice1977
- Film '72 — Self1971
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- Listeners
- 25
- Total plays
- 278
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gilbert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Edinburgh
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Work location
- Greater London
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- date of birth
- 1944-12-19
- date of death
- 2011-12-08
- cause of death
- stroke
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Gilbert Adair
- manner of death
- natural causes
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