Deaths of note from around the world:

Kate Wilhelm, 89: a prolific, prizewinning author of science fiction and mystery novels who was one of the few women writing science fiction under their own names in the 1960s. Died on March 8 in Eugene of respiratory failure.

Wilson Harris, 96: a Guyanese novelist and essayist who addressed themes of colonialism and cultural identity in weaving stories of history, fantasy, myth and philosophy. Died March 8 in Chelmsford, England.

Emily Nasrallah, 86: a prizewinning Lebanese writer whose novels struggled with bigotry against women, the horrors of civil war and the vacuum left by fleeing refugees. Died Tuesday in Beirut.

Rabbi Mordechai Hager, 95: the reserved but strong-willed leader of one of the nation’s largest Hasidic sects, who settled many of his followers in a relatively bucolic upstate enclave to escape New York City’s temptations and decadence. Died Friday in New York City of liver failure, resulting from an undetermined infection.

— From wire reports