Sir Ken Robinson obituary

Educationist who argued that children’s creativity is stifled by school systems that prioritise academic achievement

John Weeks obituary

Economist who argued against neoliberalism and was one of those advising the Labour leadership on the development of policy

Novelist whose psychological thrillers were turned into gripping TV dramas

Author of Plain Tales from the Raj, and historian concerned with ’relearning’ the role of orientalists in south Asia

American journalist and author who wrote with hard-edged sentimentality about his native city of New York

Other lives: Time Out theatre critic who interviewed Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett

Film scholar, author and obituary writer who addressed some of cinema’s big themes in his work

Other Lives: Illustrator for Radio Times and Penguin Books who moved into writing plays

British author who wrote about the culinary life of the remote French village in which he lived for more than four decades

Writer whose bestselling novels were based on people she had known, and the dramas to be found in communities in the north of England

Other Lives: Cartoonist and illustrator whose work appeared in comics, magazines and books

Widely admired Catalan writer whose tragi-comic novels explored unresolved traumas left behind by the Spanish civil war

Human geographer who showed that voters are influenced not only by their beliefs, but by where they live and work

Founder of the Type Archive dedicated to rescuing the remains of the letterpress printing industry