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Gilbert Adair (29 December 1944 – 8 December 2011) [1] 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.
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Biography. 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 ...
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Dec 13, 2011 · Gilbert Adair, 1944 to 2011, died last week of a brain haemorrhage, days short of being 67. He was born in Edinburgh. He lived in Paris through the '70s. He wrote.
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.
Jan 22, 2012 · Gilbert Adair, who has died aged 66, was a novelist, scriptwriter, translator and film critic, famed for his sharp postmodernist intellect and self-deprecating wit.
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Novelist Gilbert Adair found Federico Fellini’s Casanova to be an overly loose, alienating spectacle when he reviewed the film for Sight and Sound’s autumn 1977 issue, but had high praise for the ‘extraordinarily physical performance‘ of the late Donald Sutherland as the infamous libertine.
