Question: Time Out's 100 best British films was topped by a film adapted from a short story by which author ?
Context: In February 2011 "Time Out" surveyed 150 film industry experts to produce its list of "The 100 best British films."  Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now" topped the list. The 1st Empire Awards ceremony, presented by the British film magazine "Empire", honored the best films of 1995 and took place in 1996.  During the ceremony, "Empire" presented Empire Awards in eight categories as well as one honorary award.  The first award ceremony introduced eight award categories for Best Film, Best British Film, Best Actor, Best British Actor, Best Actress, Best British Actress, Best Director and Best Debut as well as the honorary Lifetime Achievement Award. The BAFTA Award for Best Film is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards.  It has been given since the 1st BAFTA Awards, representing the best films of 1947, but until 1969 it was called the BAFTA Award for Best Film From Any Source.  It is possible for films from any country to be nominated, although British films are also recognised in the category BAFTA Award for Best British Film and (since 1983) foreign-language films in BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language.  As such, there have been multiple occasions of a film being nominated in two of these categories. "A Madman's Diary" () is a short story published in 1918 by Lu Xun, a Chinese writer.  It was the first and most influential modern work written in vernacular Chinese in the republican era, and would become a cornerstone piece of the New Culture Movement.  It is placed first in "Call to Arms", a collection of short stories by Lu Xun.  The story was often referred to as "China's first modern short story".  This book was selected as one of the 100 best books in history by the Bokklubben World Library. William Pettigrew Templeton (7 June 1913 – 23 October 1973) was a Scottish playwright and screenwriter who made a major contribution to the Golden Age of Television writing a string of episodic dramas for American prime time television during the 1950s and 1960s, a time when many hour-long anthology drama series received wide critical acclaim.  As Gore Vidal pointed out with uncharacteristically glowing enthusiasm in 1956, it was also the "Golden Age for the Dramatist".  Templeton had a long film career both in the UK and the US.  His adaptation of "The Fallen Idol" (also known as "The Lost Illusion") a 1948 film with Ralph Richardson directed by Carol Reed and based on the short story "The Basement Room" by Graham Greene was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Direction and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won a BAFTA Award for Best British Film. The 10th Empire Awards ceremony (officially known as the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards), presented by the British film magazine "Empire", honored the best films of 2004 and took place on 13 March 2005 at the Guildhall in London, England.  During the ceremony, "Empire" presented Empire Awards in 10 categories as well as four honorary awards.  The honorary Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema award was first introduced this year.  To celebrate the 10th year anniversary of the award ceremonies a special honorary award was presented, the Icon of the Decade award.  The awards for Best British Actor, Best British Actress and Best British Director as well as the honorary Independent Spirit award were presented for the last time.  This was the first year the Lifetime Achievement Award was not presented.  The ceremony was televised in the United Kingdom by Channel 5 on March 15.  English television presenter and radio presenter Johnny Vaughan hosted the show for the first time.  The awards were sponsored by Sony Ericsson for the third consecutive year. Don't Look Now (Italian: A Venezia... un Dicembre rosso shocking ) is a 1973 independent British-Italian film directed by Nicolas Roeg.  It is a thriller adapted from the short story by Daphne du Maurier.  Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland portray a married couple who travel to Venice following the recent accidental death of their daughter, after the husband accepts a commission to restore a church.  They encounter two sisters, one of whom claims to be clairvoyant and informs them that their daughter is trying to contact them and warn them of danger.  The husband at first dismisses their claims, but starts to experience mysterious sightings himself. The Ipcress File is a 1965 British espionage film directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Michael Caine and featuring Guy Doleman and Nigel Green.  The screenplay by Bill Canaway and James Doran was based on Len Deighton's novel, "The IPCRESS File" (1962).  It has won critical acclaim and a BAFTA award for best British film.  In 1999 it was included at number 59 on the BFI list of the 100 best British films of the 20th century. The 2nd British Film Awards, known retroactively as the British Academy Film Awards, were given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) (known then as the British Film Academy) on 29 May 1949, and honoured the best films of 1948.  Three new awards were handed out for Best Documentary, Special awards for film and the United Nations Award for the "best Film embodying one or more of the principles of the United Nations Charter".  British films "The Fallen Idol" and "Hamlet" received the awards for Best British Film and Best Film from any Source, respectively. The Empire Award for Best British Director was an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine "Empire" to honor a British director working within the film industry.  The Empire Award for Best British Director was first introduced at the 2nd Empire Awards ceremony in 1997 with Danny Boyle receiving the award for his direction of "Trainspotting" and last presented as an annual award at the 6th Empire Awards ceremony in 2001 with it returning for a final time at the 10th Empire Awards ceremony in 2005.  It was one of three Best British awards retired that year (the others being Best British Actor and Best British Actress).  Winners were voted by the readers of "Empire" magazine.
Answer: Daphne du Maurier