Frederick Forsyth obituary

Foreign correspondent who went on to become a hugely successful thriller writer best known for The Day of the Jackal

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o obituary

Distinguished Kenyan novelist, poet and academic who championed writing in African languages rather than in English

One of the leading gay writers of his generation known for his bestseller A Boy’s Own Story and his biography of Jean Genet

Feminist writer and activist whose 1975 book Against Our Will revolutionised attitudes to rape

Other lives: Sociology lecturer at Liverpool University who played a key role in establishing the anti-Pinochet campaign in Britain

Writer and film-maker at the heart of the African Dawn group who directed the critically acclaimed 1991 feature Ama

Teacher and writer of ‘youth novels’, which he defended as a literature worth studying and preserving

Other lives: Printmaker, painter, wood engraver and writer who lived and worked in Jedburgh

Jane Tranter’s The Other Bennet Sister will ditch the ‘fetishisation’ of period drama to draw viewers into the novelist’s world

Other lives: Writer and cross-cultural organiser who founded the multilingual Kavya Rang poetry group in Nottingham

Irish poet whose work dealt with misogyny, cruelty and bigotry, but could also be caustically hilarious

One of the world’s greatest documentary photographers fascinated by nature and traditional ways of life

Provocative philosopher who argued that current morality has been cut off from its roots ‘largely thanks to the Enlightenment’

Other lives: Literary scholar and academic who had a long friendship and correspondence with the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett

Guardian jazz critic for over 30 years who also contributed widely to respected music books