Mary Oliver obituary

Poet with a great affinity for the natural world

Andrea Levy obituary

Prize-winning author of Small Island and The Long Song whose novels explored the intertwined histories of Britain and Jamaica

Social revolutionary who disseminated literature to libertarians and anarchist book fairs and was active in co-operative housing

Other lives: Poet who wrote under the name Childe Roland

Financial journalist, author, broadcaster and editor of Punch magazine who became an adviser to Margaret Thatcher

Popular and prolific novelist best known for The Shell Seekers and Coming Home whose work was particularly admired in Germany

Scottish ecologist, conservationist and mountaineer who was a leading authority on the Cairngorms

Other lives: Minister of the Church of Scotland and a pioneer of stylometry

Other lives: Pilot who was commissioned in the RAF in 1943 and was posted to India to No 668 Glider Squadron

Scottish poet and author best known for writing in Glasgow dialect

Author Erica Wagner remembers a fantastic, fun-loving editor who found fame late in life as a memoirist

Remarkable editor at André Deutsch who later in life found success as a frank and clear-sighted memoirist

South African writer and member of the clandestine African Resistance Movement who was jailed for seven years

Other lives: Distinguished producer for Radio 3

Other lives: Poet and translator who lived in Bruges for more than 45 years