Anita Mason obituary
Other Lives: Booker prize-shortlisted novelist and creative writing lecturer
Ornella Volta obituary
Other lives:
Mick Hugo obituary
Other Lives: Merchant seaman turned builder who helped set up Hackney Housing Co-operative in London
Jill Paton Walsh obituary
Children’s author who turned to writing for adults and was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1994 for Knowledge of Angels
Norman Thrower obituary
Other lives: Pioneering cartographer and geography professor who developed new 3D mapping techniques
Elisabeth Russell Taylor obituary
Author of dark, brilliant and unsettling novels and short stories
Shalom Schotten obituary
Other lives: Graphic designer for Thames & Hudson who worked closely with artists such as David Hockney
Tom Maschler obituary
Booker prize founder and publisher of some of the greats of 20th-century fiction
Ian Michael obituary
Other lives: Scholar of medieval Spanish culture who also wrote a series of detective novels
Stephen Cohen obituary
US historian who argued that the Soviet Union could have been reformed and need not have ended when it did
Barbara Ker Wilson obituary
Author and children’s publisher who discovered Paddington Bear
Tim Wilkinson obituary
Other lives: Eminent translator of Hungarian literature into English
Janet Freer obituary
Other lives: Literary agent who helped launch the careers of several young science fiction writers in the 1960s and 70s
Pamela Erskine obituary
Other lives: Children’s librarian who as a union rep fought for equal pay and against budget cuts
Derek Mahon obituary
One of the great poets of his native Ireland who combined an apocalyptic vision with a utopian sense of survival