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Adair, Gilbert

LC control no.n 83019064
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6051.D287
Personal name headingAdair, Gilbert
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Variant(s)Адэр, Гилберт
Associated placeKilmarnock (Scotland)
Birth date1944-12-29
Death date2011-12-08
Place of birthEdinburgh (Scotland)
Place of deathLondon (England)
Profession or occupationNovelists Poets Film critics Journalists
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Most sources give Edinburgh as Adair's place of birth but at least one other source says he was born in Kilmarnock.
Found inHis Hollywood's Vietnam, 1981: t.p. (Gilbert Adair)
Wikipedia WWW site, Dec. 13, 2011 (Gilbert Adair; b. Dec. 29, 1944, Edinburgh; d. Dec. 8, 2011; Scottish novelist, poet, film critic, and journalist)
Wikipedia, February 20, 2018 (Gilbert Adair; Gilbert Adair, (29 December 1944--8 December 2011 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))
Wikipedia, 17 July, 2019 (Gilbert Adair; from 1968 to 1980 he lived in Paris; At the end of his life, he lived in London)
British Film Institute WWW site, 17 July 2019: films, TV and people (Gilbert Adair; born: 29 December 1944, Edinburgh; Died: 8 December 2011, London)
East Ayrshire Leisure WWW site, 17 July 2019: news local artist's first solo exhibition (In another Kilmarnock connection, the show was conceived in response to the book 'Flickers', a history of cinema written by Kilmarnock born author and film critic Gilbert Adair)
Associated languageeng