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).