Gilbert Adair

Gilbert Adair (29 December 19448 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). Provided by Wikipedia