What author of The Holy Innocents was most famous for the "fiendish" translation of Georges Perec's postmodern novel "A Void"?
Gilbert Adair Gilbert Adair (29 December 19448 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).
Rafael Ábalos Rafael Ábalos (born 12 October 1956 in Archidona, Málaga) is a Spanish author of the bestseller book "Grimpow: The Invisible Road" published in 2007. The children's fantasy novel was about a boy finding a mysterious amulet in France who becomes a focus of a "centuries-old mission" to enlighten humanity. According to a review in "Publishers Weekly", Ábalos "blends the grand-scale storytelling prowess and epic quest element of Tolkien’s "Lord of the Rings" with the cryptographic intrigue of Dan Brown’s "The Da Vinci Code"", and gave it a positive review. The book was published by "Random House".