“A moment of satisfaction that stands out for me as a writer,”
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John Berger
John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize. His essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is hugely culturally influential and continues to be widely read today. He lived in France for over fifty years.
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culture · British painter, writer and art critic (1926 - 2017) · screenwriter · art historian · painter · novelist · journalist · poet · critic · opinion journalist · art critic · writer · also John Berger, Berger
Born 5 November 1926 · Died 2 January 2017 · Q382604
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2026· 8 entries
“It’s as though the author wants to mask the images, as though he fears their directness and accessibility.”
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“very mysterious person, very secretive”
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“I’d like to see myself through her eyes, in the way she looks at me.”
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“as a companion, in some ways a contemporary, to us. We”
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“The modern poverty of the Caribbean is the direct result of this and similar exploitation. One of the consequences of this poverty is that hundreds of thousands of West Indians have been forced to come to Britain as migrant workers. Thus my book about migrant workers would be financed directly out of them or their relatives or ancestors.”
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“s sponsor, Booker McConnell, had a long history of slavery and exploitation in the Caribbean, and this was why he wanted to donate the money to the British Black Panthers and fund the writing of his book on migrant workers. Berger”
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The Guardian: John Berger: From Life by Tom Overton review – a vibrant biography of the pioneering critic
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Ways of Seeing at 50: how John Berger’s radical TV series changed our view of art
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: New Ways of Seeing: can John Berger's classic decode our baffling digital age?
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2017· 7 entries
The Guardian: Ways of seeing John Berger
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The Guardian: The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger review – an unconventional portrait of an unconventional man
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The Guardian: The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger review – Tilda Swinton leads lavish praise
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The Guardian: John Berger 1926-2017: an appreciation
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The Guardian: Letter: John Berger was generous with his knowledge
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Died 2017-01-02.
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Berger died at his home in Antony, France, on 2 January 2017 at the age of 90.
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Groeneveld Award (2011).
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Scott Moncrieff Prize (2005).
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1999· 1 entry
Berger voiced twin brothers Archie and Albert Crisp in the video game Grand Theft Auto: London 1969
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1974· 1 entry
Berger co-founded the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Ltd in London with Arnold Wesker, Lisa Appignanesi, Richard Appignanesi, Chris Searle, Glenn Thompson, Siân Williams, and others
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1972· 4 entries
Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1972).
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Awarded Booker Prize for G. (1972).
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“We had long conversations about the layout, about not using illustrations as they are traditionally used but rather letting them speak for themselves. In a way it was about jiggling with the conventions of what makes a book, all of which were things we talked about, albeit in a different spirit, with Ways of Seeing . So in a funny way I see it as possessing a family likeness. Its character is different, but it is definitely related.”
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The BBC broadcast his four-part television series Ways of Seeing and published its accompanying text, a book of the same name
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1958· 1 entry
Berger published his first novel, A Painter of Our Time, which tells the story of the disappearance of Janos Lavin, a fictional exiled Hungarian painter, and his diary's discovery by an art critic friend called John
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1949· 1 entry
Berger married first to artist and illustrator Patricia (Pat) Marriott in 1949.
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1926· 1 entry
Born 1926-11-05.
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1898· 1 entry
Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize in 1972
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