John Burnside obituary

Poet, winner of the TS Eliot and Forward prizes and the Whitbread poetry award, memoirist, novelist and academic

Terry Coleman obituary

Guardian journalist of the 1970s and 80s who dispensed with deference towards the famous to make each interview an event

Other lives: Fleet Street journalist and author of novels and travel books

Other lives: Historian who specialised in research on Welsh radical traditions and edited Richard Burton’s diaries

Canadian short-story writer who won the Nobel prize in 2013 and was often likened to Chekhov

American cartoonist and author whose pioneering work in comics included being the first female artist to draw Wonder Woman

Chief designer for Penguin Books with a flair for pacing illustrated nonfiction, such as with Pelican’s Style and Civilization series

Other lives: Crime novelist and founding editor of Education Guardian

Bestselling author of Lace and Superwoman and women’s editor for the Daily Mail and the Observer

Campaigner who founded the CoppaFeel! cancer awareness charity to encourage women to check their breasts

Author of The New York Trilogy who conjured up a world of wonder and happenstance, miracle and catastrophe

Lawyer turned novelist who enjoyed huge success with his bestselling Shardlake historical mysteries

Paediatrician specialising in child development and novelist who founded the literary periodical Ambit

Other lives: Dutch journalist, author and futurologist who was an advocated for a post-capitalist society

Other lives: Art teacher who did much to revive interest in the ancient shawl-making tradition of Norwich and Norfolk