Binyavanga Wainaina obituary

Kenyan writer and LGBT activist who made a revolutionary impact on literature from and about the African continent

Judith Kerr obituary

The author and illustrator best known for the classic children’s book The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Journalist, naval historian and chief foreign leader writer on the Guardian

Author of The Caine Mutiny and The Winds of War who championed traditional Jewish values and American patriotism

Guardian journalist and literary editor with a lifelong commitment to leftwing politics, choral singing and nuclear disarmament

Other lives: Librarian who transformed Chetham’s Library in Manchester into an internationally recognised institution

Founder of L’Arche communities for adults with learning disabilities

Other lives: Environmental journalist and author

Ecologist and herpetologist who did much to pioneer the conservation of terrestrial species in Wales

Other lives: Leading light in Marie Stopes International who set up pioneering health clinics

Photographer who concentrated on the high-density architecture of Hong Kong

Leading Australian poet whose work celebrated the rural world

Prolific writer whose novel The War of the Roses was turned into a hit film starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner

American science fiction writer whose work contained haunted, potent myths about human destiny

Novelist and TV writer best known for the ‘folk horror’ Robin Redbreast, which was broadcast on the BBC in 1970