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Gilbert Adair (29 December 1944 – 8 December 2011) was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic, and journalist.
Gilbert Adair was born on 29 December 1944 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for The Dreamers (2003), Blind Revenge (2009) and The Carer (2016). He died on 8 December 2011 in London, England, UK.
Writer, film critic and journalist Gilbert Adair was born in Edinburgh on 29 December 1944. He was the author of five novels, including The Holy Innocents (1988), which won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, Love and Death on Long Island (1990), which was made into a film by Richard Kwietniowski in 1998, and later, A Closed Book (1999), a ...
Dec 8, 2011 · Gilbert Adair was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. Born in Edinburgh, he lived in Paris from 1968 through 1980. He is most famous for such novels as Love and Death on Long Island (1997) and The Dreamers (2003), both of which were made into films, although he is also noted as the translator of Georges Perec's ...
A singular and highly gifted literary dandy, Gilbert was also a seasoned and voracious film buff — uncharacteristic for a writer in the U.K. (born in Scotland, but in fact a fully self-created English dandy and francophile), yet part of his essential baggage as a frequent Channel-crosser.
Dec 11, 2011 · Gilbert Adair, who died last week at the age of 66, was for two years at the end of the last century the chief film critic of The Independent on Sunday.
Dec 13, 2011 · Gilbert Adair, a writer – "overdirecting his own masterpieces"! Four words that just get Welles, with an accuracy that never buries fondness. An author has moved on.
