Granta. Nick Hornby adapted this short article as a film with the same title, made by BBC Films and released in October 2009, and available on video from March 2010. In the meantime Barber had expanded the Granta article into her memoir, too late for Hornby to use it as source material for the film. In 2009 Barber returned to The Sunday Times to write for its magazine. In July 2011 Barber was successfully sued by Sarah Thornton for libel and malicious falsehood over Barber's review of Seven Days in the Art World, published in The Daily Telegraph on 1 November 2008. Barber's memoir of her career as an interviewer, A Curious Career, was published in May 2014. Awards Barber was selected as Interviewer of the Year at The Press Awards in 1985, 1986, 1990, 1996, 2002 and 2012. References External links Barber's contributions at The Observer 1944 births Living people People from Bagshot People educated at Lady Eleanor Holles School Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford English journalists British women journalists Penthouse (magazine) people