Mike Gillespie obituary
Bronze sculptures by my friend Mike Gillespie, who has died aged 82, can be seen in several Cambridge colleges, at the Gas Research Centre at Loughborough University and in numerous private collections in Britain and abroad. He urged people not to look...
Andrew McMillan obituary
The Australian writer Andrew McMillan has died at the age of 54. When he was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2010, Andrew announced a "living wake", which was documented by an Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV crew. His friends rallied to his cause...
Basil Payne obituary
My father, the poet and writer Basil Payne, has died aged 88. Basil believed a poet's job was to act not as an oracle, but as a catalyst. He wanted his words to take the reader on a reflective journey of enlightenment, shaped by their own experience.He...
‘A life crammed with many separate talents’: Len Deighton remembers Ted Dicks
Tucked away behind the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, there is a row of hidden studios. During the second world war they were used by the Special Operations Executive to train agents who were about to be dropped into German-occupied Europe. Late...
Wisława Szymborska 1923-2012
Nobel prizewinner who viewed the world through poetryWhen Wisława Szymborska, who has died aged 88, received the Nobel prize for literature in 1996, the Swedish Academy stated the following in its citation: "Her poetry … with ironic precision, ...
Dorothea Tanning obituary
Painter, sculptor and poet with a vivid, dreamlike styleThe American artist Dorothea Tanning, who has died aged 101, was a talented painter whose reputation was confounded by her long marriage to the great surrealist Max Ernst. He figures prominently i...
Wislawa Szymborska Has Died
Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska has passed away. She was 88 years old.
Here’s more from her Nobel biography: “Szymborska was born in Kórnik in Western Poland on 2 July 1923. Since 1931 she has been living in Krakow, ...
Joe Potts obituary
My father, Joe Potts, who has died of a heart attack aged 70, was a novelist, singer-songwriter and spiritual healer. His first novel, Growing Sideways (1968), was the picaresque tale of an irresponsible teenage drifter's blackly comic and erotic misad...
Edmund de Waal on the potter Emmanuel Cooper, ‘a true democrat’
Emmanuel Cooper (obituary, 31 January) was a true democrat. He simply refused to see hierarchies that others thought were significant, bringing a motorbike into conjunction with a bowl by Lucie Rie as his examples of good craftsmanship for a 1982 exhib...
Anthony Sutcliffe obituary
Academic and writer who helped to develop the disciplines of urban and planning historyAnthony Sutcliffe, who has died after a long illness aged 69, was one of a select group of British academics who developed the disciplines of urban history and plann...
Emmanuel Cooper
Leading British potter and writer who became a gay rights activist in the 70sEmmanuel Cooper, who has died of cancer aged 73, was a leading British potter, who also became widely known as a writer, editor, critic, biographer, teacher, broadcaster, cura...
Theodore Enslin 1925-2011
Avant-garde American poet whose lines were inspired by musical compositionAs he made his debut in the literary magazine Origin, edited by Cid Corman, Theodore Enslin, who has died aged 86, was often associated with the Black Mountain school of poetry. ...
