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name: "John Berger"
type: Person
description: "John Berger (1926 to 2017) was a British novelist, essayist, art critic and painter, born in Stoke Newington, London, on 5th November 1926. He wrote and presented the 1972 BBC series and book Ways of Seeing, and his novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize. He gave half the prize money to the British Black Panthers and used the other half to write A Seventh Man, his book with the photographer Jean Mohr on migrant workers in Europe. From 1973 he lived in Quincy, a farming village in the Haute-Savoie, where he wrote the trilogy Into Their Labours. He died near Paris on 2nd January 2017, aged 90."
jobTitle: "Novelist, essayist, art critic and painter"
url: https://www.johnbergerhome.com
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canonical: https://richtravelmagazine.com/people/john-berger
publication: Rich Travel Magazine
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# John Berger

John Berger (1926 to 2017) was a British novelist, essayist, art critic and painter, born in Stoke Newington, London, on 5th November 1926. He wrote and presented the 1972 BBC series and book Ways of Seeing, and his novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize. He gave half the prize money to the British Black Panthers and used the other half to write A Seventh Man, his book with the photographer Jean Mohr on migrant workers in Europe. From 1973 he lived in Quincy, a farming village in the Haute-Savoie, where he wrote the trilogy Into Their Labours. He died near Paris on 2nd January 2017, aged 90.

**Novelist, essayist, art critic and painter**

## Books

- [G.](/book/g)