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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.
- January 1, 1
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- January 1, 1
- London, England, UK
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.
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.
Gilbert Adair was a multi-faceted author. He wrote and published from the early 1980s but produced a more regular output of fiction in his latter years. His early reputation was founded on his journalistic writing, particularly his weekly ‘Scrutiny’ column for The Sunday Times in the early 1990s, in which he offered sharp and witty ...
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Faber And Faber Ltd
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 postmodern ...
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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.
