Fawzi Karim obituary

Other lives: Iraqi poet and painter whose work has been widely translated

William Gray obituary

Literary critic whose multidisciplinary perspective revealed the existential depth of fairytales and fantasy

Other lives: Dedicated librarian who inspired young and old with her love of books

Author of a groundbreaking study of step-parenting, and biographer of Nora Barnacle, the wife and muse of James Joyce

American author best known for her ‘sex-and-shopping’ novels such as Scruples and Princess Daisy

Publisher and nephew of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, he extended the hand of friendship to Woolf scholars and writers

Historian and controversial media commentator who taught at Cambridge, Oxford and in Turkey

Other lives: Teacher, historian and champion of multiculturalism

American socialite, fashion designer and writer who was the original ‘poor little rich girl’

Other lives: Respected congregational rabbi at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, in St John’s Wood, London

Other lives: Businessman, poet, academic and media commentator

Writer of crime fiction and respected reviewer of the genre

Military historian best known for his Forgotten Voices series which kickstarted a fascination with oral history

Reproductive biologist and author of popular science and science fiction books best known for the series The Science of Discworld

One of Sweden’s most important and controversial postwar writers who aimed his fire at European imperialism