Deborah Orr obituary

Editor of the Guardian’s Weekend magazine who went on to become a trenchant, witty and much admired columnist

Swami Shivapremananda obituary

Other lives: Monk and yogi who spread the teachings of Sivananda yoga throughout the world

Architectural historian, garden designer and writer who was regarded as the godfather of postmodernism

American literary critic and author who delighted in overturning orthodoxies

Other lives: Authority on Latin American history and highly respected teacher

Other lives: Prolific artist and illustrator for BBC children’s television

Scholar whose detailed analysis of classical texts sustained his sense of wonder in philosophy

Hungarian author, sociologist and essayist who was on his country’s list of forbidden authors from 1977 until 1988

Poet who superimposed a psychic overlay on the streets and terraces of his native Belfast

Other lives: Early member of the editorial team at Penguin Books who was a pioneer of affordable literature

Campaigner for reproductive rights and health in the developing world

Archaeologist who explored the ancient civilisations of Mexico and Central America

Poet and novelist who transformed literary writing in the 1970s

Diplomat who disputed the US intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003

People lover, adrenaline freak, poker player and true romantic... the Observer’s former poetry editor remembered by his publisher