The Observer's faces of 2011
Headline makers of the past year talk about the highs and lows
of their time in the spotlight
Maggie Gee interview: 'Writing novels is a ghastly profession'
The novelist tells Alice O'Keeffe about bringing Virginia Woolf back to life and why Hanif Kureishi is wrong about creative writing courses
Giles Fraser: 'Economic justice is the number one moral issue in the Bible'
Christopher Jefferies: 'It was like having your personality left in ruins'
Katy B: 'The first time I was top of the bill, I was proper freaked out'
The Inbetweeners: 'Our movie's success doesn't make any logical sense'
Sarah Burton: 'The McQueen team is like family'
Julian Fellowes: 'If you are lucky you have your moment'
Ai Weiwei: 'Younger people can be more hurt. I have my own beliefs'
Imogen Thomas: 'What I did was wrong. But I was treated horribly'
Nadine Dorries: 'I'm resigned, as a result of my job, to being alone for the rest of my life'
Faces of 2011 - in pictures
Pauline Pearce: 'I became famous overnight'
The hacking inquisitors: 'People thought I was a paranoid conspiracy theorist'
