Caroline Gilfillan obituary

Other lives: Poet and writer who explored feminist themes, including with the all-female 1970s band the Stepney Sisters

Jose Harris obituary

Historian of the British welfare state and biographer of its architect William Beveridge

John Bale obituary

Other Lives: Lecturer in geography and sport who wrote several books questioning the perceived role of sport as a force for good

Anthony Holden obituary

Journalist, author and poker player who worked for the Sunday Times and became music critic of the Observer

Tim Harland obituary

Other lives: Co-founder of a publishing company that promoted the ideas of permaculture

Evelyn Fox Keller obituary

American theoretical physicist, philosopher and writer who viewed the history of science and gender through a feminist lens

Louise Glück obituary

Former US poet laureate who could create a landscape in her work that made her seem a visionary

Maurice Leitch obituary

Radio drama producer and writer whose novel Poor Lazarus won the Guardian fiction prize in 1969

Anthony Stevens obituary

Analyst and psychiatrist who proposed a science of human nature that embraced psychology, anthropology and medicine

Clare Thomson obituary

Other lives: Journalist and teacher whose family background led her to write about Estonia and the Baltic states

Edith Grossman obituary

Exceptional translator of novels by Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa as well as other Hispanic authors

Tobias Hill obituary

Novelist and poet who was intrigued by what lay beneath the surface of things and whose fiction often had London at its heart