Poet Gilbert Adair

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Gilbert Adair

Living place: Scotland

Birthday: 29-12-1944 (80 years old)

Global rank: #94840

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Who is Poet Gilbert Adair?
A Scottish author, poet, journalist, and film critic, he became known for The Dreamers, Love and Death on Long Island, and other cinematic adaptations of his novels. His other works include the novels The Holy Innocents and Alice Through Needle's Eyes.
He translated George Perec's novel, A Void, into English.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He moved from Scotland to France in 1968 and remained in Paris until 1980. His first work, The Holy Innocents, won the author's first Club Novel Award in 1988.

Family life info

He was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland. A gay man, he made a point of saying that he wanted to be seen as simply a writer, rather than a gay writer.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Gilbert Adair?
His novel, The Holy Innocents, was made into the 2003 Bernardo Bertolucci film, The Dreamers.

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When was Poet Gilbert Adair born?
Gilbert Adair birthday 29-12-1944 (at the age of 80).
Where is Poet Gilbert Adair's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Gilbert Adair was born in . is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Capricorn, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Gilbert Adair's global rank is 94840 and whose rank is 1116 in list of famous Poet.
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Events in 1944 and 29-12

Events in the world in the birth year of Gilbert Adair

  • Allies invade Normandy on D-Day (June 6). Background: Normandy campaign
  • Bretton Woods Conference creates International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
  • Dumbarton Oaks Conference—U.S., British Commonwealth, and U.S.S.R. propose establishment of United Nations.
  • Battle of the Bulge begins as Germans penetrate Allied front in Belgium (Dec. 16 to Jan. 1945).
  • Anne Frank and her family betrayed and sent to concentration camps. She will die in 1945.

Birthday Gilbert Adair (29-12) in history

  • Day 29-12 year 1170: By order of King Henry II, four magicians had murdered Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Day 29-12 year 1845: Texas became the 28th state in the United States.
  • Day 29-12 year 1851: The first Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) opened in Boston.
  • Day 29-12 year 1890: The last major battle of the Indian Wars, at Wounded Knee Creek, took place with hundreds of Indian men, women, and children massacred.
  • Day 29-12 year 1937: The Constitution of Ireland, changing the Irish Free State into Eire, went into effect.
  • Day 29-12 year 1940: During World War II, Germany began dropping incendiary bombs on London.
  • Day 29-12 year 1989: Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia.
  • Day 29-12 year 1996: A peace agreement was signed, ending 36 years of conflict in Guatemala.
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