Adam Zagajewski obituary

Poet and leading voice of Poland’s Generation of ’68, who wrote ‘to understand the world’

Larry McMurtry obituary

American novelist who wrote Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove and the screenplay for Brokeback Mountain

Other lives: Wood engraver, illustrator and print maker whose work was characterised by an irreverent sense of humour

Historian who re-introduced the subject of religion into his studies of the British empire

Historian who made her name with biographies of leading figures in Stuart Britain

Other lives: Author and Labour party member who overcame her lack of schooling, learning English, Gujarati and Hindi

Other lives: Librarian who created a database that was a precursor for the NHS Direct service for patients

Prolific scholar of the art and architecture of the Byzantine empire

Other Lives: Feature writer and theatre critic at the Nottingham Evening Post for 40 years

Outspoken Egyptian feminist, writer and campaigner who fought against patriarchy and poverty

Historian whose work Bismarck: A Life is considered the best study of its subject in the English language

Other lives: Academic and author of critical studies on Anglo-American Modernism

Other lives: Magistrate and local historian who established Formby as the site of the oldest dedicated lifeboat station in Britain

Author who created a world of wordplay in the children’s classic The Phantom Tollbooth

BBC defence correspondent who went on to script This Sceptred Isle, a radio history of Britain that ran for more than a decade