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John Berger

John Berger
John Berger, English author, poet, painter and critic (d. 2017)

John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, was influential. He lived in France for over fifty years.

5 November 1926

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