Biography

Award-winning novelist, journalist, broadcaster and screenwriter. His script THE DREAMERS was directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND was filmed, with masterly performances by John Hurt and Jason Priestley, directed by Richard Kwietniowski. BLIND MAN'S BLUFF is Gilbert's adaptation of his novel A CLOSED BOOK. He is also writing the book and lyrics for a musical based on his novel LOVE AND DEATH IN LONG ISLAND, and is developing a proposal for a television drama series based on the cases solved by Evadne Mount, the fictional detective in THE ACT OF ROGER MURGATROYD.

 

 

Full Credits:

 

Film Scripts:

 

KLIMT

Directed by Raoul Ruiz: English script adaptation

Starring John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane and Saffron Burrows

 

BEL CANTO

An adaptation for The Recorded Picture Company and Bernardo Bertolucci: Delivered

 

BLIND MAN'S BLUFF

Based on his novel A CLOSED BOOK: Producer: Tom Kinninmont: Director: Raoul Ruiz: Starring: Tom Conti and Daryl Hannah

 

THE DREAMERS

The Recorded Picture Company: Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci: Based on his novel: Completed

 

THE TERRITORY

Directed by Raoul Ruiz: Screened at the London Strasbourg Film Festivals: Completed

 

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

Magic Light

 

THE WOLF OF THE WEST COAST

Kanpai Productions: Translation / dialogue

 

Television:

 

A proposal for a drama series based on the cases solved by Evadne Mount, the fictional detective in THE ACT OF ROGER MURGATROYD.

Books Published:

 

Fiction:

 

2009

AND THEN THERE WAS NO ONE

2007              

A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR OF STYLE

 

2005              

THE ACT OF ROGER MURGATROYD

 

2004              

BUENAS NOCHES BUENOS AIRES                       

 

2003              

THE DREAMERS

Winner of the Authors Club Award for the Best First Novel of the Year

 

1999              

A CLOSED BOOK

 

1997              

THE KEY OF THE TOWER

 

1992             

THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR

Shortlisted for the James Tait. Black Award: 1993

 

1990              

LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND

 

1988                          

THE HOLY INNOCENTS

Won the Authors Club First Novel Award in 1989

 

1987              

PETER PAN AND THE ONLY CHILDREN

 

1984              

ALICE THROUGH THE NEEDLE'S EYE

 

Non-Fiction:

 

2001              

THE REAL TADZIO

Short Book Company: A biography of the boy who inspired Thomas Mann's DEATH IN VENICE

 

1999              

MOVIES: AN ANTHOLOGY

Penguin

 

1997              

SURFING THE ZEITGEIST

Faber and Faber

 

1995              

FLICKERS: A HISTORY OF THE CINEMA IN 100 IMAGES

Faber

 

1992              

THE POSTMODERNIST ALWAYS RINGS TWICE

Journalism collection

 

1986              

MYTHS AND MEMORIES

 

1981              

HOLLYWOOD'S VIETNAM

 

Book Contributions:

 

1990              

ARIEL AT BAY

An essay

 

1989              

THE TIME OUT FILM GUIDE

Entries

 

1989              

LA PETITE VOLEUSE

Preface

 

1983              

REDISCOVERING FRENCH FILMS

An essay

 

1982              

WHAT'S WHAT IN THE 1980s

Film Entries

 

1981              

ANATOMY OF THE MOVIES

An Essay

 

Translations:

 

1994

A VOID

Harvill: Winner of the Scott Moncrief Prize for Translation of Perec's LA DISPIRATION 

 

1990

LETTERS

By Francois Truffaut:  Won the 1990 British Film Institute Book Award

 

1986

JOHN BOORMAN

By Michel Ciment:  Won the 1986 British Film Institute Book Award

 

1983

KUBRICK by Michel Kiment

 

1974

ORSON WELLES by Andre Bazin: Cocteau essay

 

Television Journalism:

 

Saturday Review, Comment, The Late Show, Film Club, Film 1990

 

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