Gilbert Adair Biography

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Gilbert Adair (born December 29, 1944 in Edinburgh) is an author, film critic, and journalist who won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges Perec. From 1992 to 1996 he wrote the "Scrutiny" column for The Sunday Times.

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

Bibliography

• Hollywood's Vietnam (1981)
  
• Alice through the Needle's Eye (1984)
  
• A Night at the Pictures (with Nick Roddick) (1985)
  
• Myths & Memories (1986)
  
• Peter Pan and the Only Children (1987)
  
• The Holy Innocents (1988)
  
• Letters, by François Truffaut (translator & editor) (1990)
  
• Love and Death on Long Island (1990)
  
• The Death of the Author (1992)
  
• The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice (1992)
  
• A Void, by Georges Perec (translator) (1994)
  
• Flickers (1995)
  
• Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment (editor with Marina Warner) (1995)
  
• Surfing the Zeitgeist (1997)
  
• The Key of the Tower (1997)
  
• A Closed Book (1999)
  
• Movies (editor) (1999)
  
• Zazie in the Metro, by Raymond Queneau (introduction) (2000)
  
• The Real Tadzio (2001)
  
• The Dreamers (2003)
  
• Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires (2004)
  
• The Act of Roger Murgatroyd (2005)
  

External links

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