Judith Kazantzis obituary

Poet, writer and activist who examined the traps and seductions of power relationships – domestic, sexual and social

Gwenyth Shaw obituary

Other lives: Economics lecturer, poetry editor and author

Translator best known for her witty English rendering of Asterix, the popular French comic book series

Other lives: Poet and writer who focused on Britain’s walks, ancient tracks and traditions

Other lives: Actor and author who wrote The Sewing Machine Man

Broadcaster, writer and prolific biographer of Hollywood and showbusiness stars

Other lives: Artist who expressed himself playfully in words, music and visual arts

Prolific author who wrote more than 50 novels, including The Tamarind Seed, which was turned into a hit film in 1974

Distinguished historian, journalist and scholar who focused on terrorism, the Holocaust and the decline of Europe

Film director and animator who brought Raymond Briggs’s stories to life on screen

Journalist and scourge of the establishment who tempered his criticism when writing about the wine trade

Other lives: Literary scholar, teacher and poet with a special interest in the 17th century

Creator of the Postman Pat stories, who depicted a community-spirited but disappearing world

Other lives: Political economist, author and liberal thinker who embraced the role of public intellectual

Scholar who established heritage studies as an academic discipline in its own right