Sandy Brownjohn obituary

Other lives: Poet and educator whose books transformed the teaching of poetry-writing in schools

Ismail Kadare obituary

One of Albania’s greatest writers who explored the ugliness and dignity of this ancient and long-oppressed nation

Other lives: Historian of child actors in British theatre and lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University

Belfast-born poet, academic and essayist whose work explored the everyday with wit and straightforward syntax

Graphic designer and typographer who was the art director of Nova and the Independent magazine

Other lives: History teacher and writer on the leading figures of the Russian revolution

Other lives: Feminist poet and editor best known for the anthology Bread and Roses: Women’s Poetry of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Archaeologist who became a leading authority on the history of Greek art, with a particular interest in gems and finger rings

Award-winning journalist who worked for the Irish Times and the Guardian and co-wrote a bestseller on the scandal-prone taoiseach Charles Haughey

Other lives: Journalist, TV producer and biographical researcher of fierce intelligence and bone-dry wit

High court judge who presided over the libel case brought by Jonathan Aitken against the Guardian

American musicologist who settled in Worcestershire and wrote extensively on the life and music of Edward Elgar

Other lives: Theologian, academic and author whose speciality was the study of the Old Testament

American photographer who captured Bob Dylan on the cusp of his dramatic reinvention from acoustic to electric sound

Canadian-American producer who won Oscars for the hit film classics The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby