Carlos Ruiz Zafón obituary
Author of the bestselling literary thriller The Shadow of the Wind, set in 1940s Barcelona
Glenn Carmichael obituary
Other lives: Poet, performer, tutor and novelist who kickstarted Bristol’s performance poetry scene
Edith Aron obituary
Other lives: writer who translated South American literature for German audiences
John Furnival obituary
Distinguished artist and teacher best known for his ‘wordscapes’
Aubrey Burl obituary
Archaeologist who wrote extensively on Britain’s stone circles
Carl Tighe obituary
Other Lives: Teacher of creative writing at the University of Derby who established the first undergraduate degree in the subject
Deborah Lavin obituary
Other lives: English teacher who wrote plays and poetry
Maureen Dunbar obituary
Other lives: Author of Catherine, a memoir about her daughter, which helped raise awareness of eating disorders
Anthony Bailey obituary
Other Lives: New Yorker writer for more than three decades
Margaret Meek Spencer obituary
Educationist who saw a child’s joy in the story as the key to learning to read
Derek Roebuck obituary
Other Lives: Legal scholar and author of a multi-volume history of arbitration and mediation
Rolf Hochhuth obituary
German dramatist best known for his 1963 play Der Stellvertreter (The Representative) about the Catholic church and the Holocaust
Stephen Fay obituary
Veteran journalist, editor and author who wrote about finance, the arts and cricket
Alan Williams obituary
Thriller writer and journalist who relished the excitement and drama of the cold war
Peter Davies obituary
Other Lives: Britain’s foremost scholar of the international shipping industry