Gilbert Adair

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Gilbert Adair (born December 29, 1944 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † December 8, 2011 in London ) was a British writer , film critic and columnist , who was best known for his detective novels .

Life

From 1968 to 1980 Adair lived in Paris , then in London. He won the Scott Moncrieff Translator Award for the book A Void , which he translated from French into English. The original title was La Disparition by Georges Perec (Ger. Anton Voyls Fortgang ). His works are also published in German by the Zurich publisher Edition Epoca in a translation by Thomas Schlachter (including the novels The Death of the Author , Liebestod auf Long Island , The Key to the Tower and Träumer ) and by CH Beck in a translation by Jochen Schimmang ( including the crime novels with the hobby investigator Evadne Mount: Murder on ffolkes Manor , A stylish murder in Elstree , And then there was no more ).

Between 1992 and 1996 he wrote a weekly column for the Sunday Times (UK).

Film adaptations

The film Life and Death on Long Iceland ( Love and Death on Long Iceland , 1997) by Richard Kwietniowski is based on a story by 1990. For the film The Dreamers ( The Dreamers , 2003) by Bernardo Bertolucci Adair wrote the screenplay . To do this, he used content from three of his books: The Holy Innocents , The Dreamers and Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires .

Works

fiction

  • Alice Through the Needle's Eye. 1984, illustrations by Jenny Thorne. Macmillan, London, ISBN 0-330-29158-0 .
    • German edition: Alice and the land in the eye of the needle. The other adventures of "Alice in Wonderland". Translated from English by Dieter H. Stündel . Goldmann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-442-09901-3 .
  • Peter Pan and the Only Children. Macmillan, London 1987
  • The Holy Innocents. Heinemann, London 1988
  • Love and Death on Long Island. 1990
    • German edition: Liebestod on Long Island. Translated from English by Thomas Schlachter. Edition Epoca, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-905513-09-9 .
  • The Death of the Author. 1992
    • German edition: The death of the author. Translated from English by Thomas Schlachter. Edition Epoca, Zurich 1997
  • The Key of the Tower. 1997
    • German edition: The key to the tower. Translated from English by Thomas Schlachter. Edition Epoca, Zurich 2000
  • A closed book. 1999
    • German edition: Blindband. Translated from English by Thomas Schlachter. Edition Epoca, Zurich 1999
  • The Dreamers. 2003
    • German edition: Dreamers. Translated from English by Thomas Schlachter. Edition Epoca, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-905513-31-5 .
  • Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires. 2003
    • German edition: Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires. Translated from English by Jochen Schimmang. Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60518-5 .
  • The Act of Roger Murgatroyd. 2006
  • A Mysterious Affair of Style. 2007
    • German edition: A stylish murder in Elstree. Evadne Mount's second case. Translated from English by Jochen Schimmang. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-56370-6 .
  • And then there was no one. 2008
    • German edition: And then there was no more. Evadne Mount's third case. Translated from English by Jochen Schimmang. Beck, Munich 2008

Non-fiction

  • Hollywood's Vietnam. From " The Green Berets " to " Apocalypse Now ". 1981, ISBN 0-906-07186-0 .
  • A Night at the Pictures. With Nick Roddick. 1985
  • Myths & Memories , 1986
  • The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice. 1992
    • German edition: When postmodernism rings twice. Variations without a theme. Translated from English by Thomas Schlachter. Edition Epoca, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-905513-19-6 .
  • Flickers. 1995
  • Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment. As editor with Marina Moes. 1995
  • Surfing the zeitgeist. 1997
  • Movies. 1999
  • The Real Tadzio. 2001

Translations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gilbert Adair died
  2. ^ Gilbert Adair at the publishing house CH Beck
personal data
SURNAME Adair, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish writer, film critic and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2011
Place of death London