Gilbert Adair

Gilbert Adair (born 29 December 1944 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish author, film critic and journalist. He won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void, which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges Perec. This book, as well as the translation, contains not even once the letter 'e'. His works may be compared to that of Julian Barnes, A S Byatt and Patrick Gale.

Career

His early works of fiction included two unauthorized sequels to classic works of Victorian English literature: Alice through the Needle's Eye (following Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass) and Peter Pan and the Only Children (following Peter and Wendy).

From 1992 to 1996 he wrote the "Scrutiny" column for The Sunday Times.

He is currently writing a stage version of Love and Death on Long Island which is being developed by producers New Gods and Heroes.

Personal life

From 1968 to 1980 he lived in Paris, France. At present he lives in London, England.

Adaptations

The 1997 film Love and Death on Long Island by Richard Kwietniowski was based on his 1990 novel of the same name.

The film The Dreamers by Bernardo Bertolucci, with a script by Adair, was based on his book The Holy Innocents, which Adair revised and rereleased under the same title as the film.

Bibliography

Fiction

• Alice through the Needle's Eye (1984)
• Peter Pan and the Only Children (1987)
• The Holy Innocents (1988) - winner of the Author's Club First Novel Award
• Love and Death on Long Island (1990)
• The Death of the Author (1992) - a black satire of contemporary theoretical cultishness and a metaphysical murder mystery
• The Key of the Tower (1997)
• A Closed Book (1999) - a literary thriller about a prize-winning novelist left blind after a serious car accident.
• The Dreamers (2003) - a tale of sexual obsession set against the backdrop of the Paris street riots of 1968
• Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires (2004) - the story of Gideon, a young Englishman in 1980s Paris, on the verge of sexual discovery
• The Act of Roger Murgatroyd (2006) - a murder mystery set in the 1930s on Dartmoor, first in the Evadne Mount trilogy
• A Mysterious Affair of Style (2007) - second in the Evadne Mount trilogy
• And Then There Was No One (2009) - third in the Evadne Mount trilogy

Non-fiction

• A Night at the Pictures (with Nick Roddick) (1985)
• Myths & Memories (1986)
• Hollywood's Vietnam (1981)
• The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice (1992)
• Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment (editor with Marina Warner) (1995)
• Flickers (1995)
• Surfing the Zeitgeist (1997)
• Movies (editor) (1999)
• The Real Tadzio (2001) - a biography of the boy (Baron Władysław Moes) who inspired Thomas Mann's Death in Venice.

Translations

• Letters by François Truffaut (1990) (also editor)
• A Void by Georges Perec (1994)
• Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau (2000) (also introduction)

External links

• Gilbert Adair at Contemporary Writers
• Gilbert Adair at the Internet Movie Database
• Gilbert Adair at the Internet Book List
• Gilbert Adair at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• http://www.loveanddeath.co.uk