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Gilbert Adair
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Vinony's link graph records 81 inbound references to Gilbert Adair, and connects out to The Independent, Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and Paris.
Vinony files it under 1944 births, 2011 deaths and 20th-century Scottish male writers.
Vinony links it to 20 Wikipedia language editions.
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 · Last.fm
- 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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