John Berger

Personal Info

Birthday

November 5, 1926

Day of Death

2017-01-02

(90 years old)

Place of Birth

Stoke Newington, London, England

John Berger

Biography

John Peter Berger (/ˈbɜːrdʒər/; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) 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, is often used as a university text. He lived in France for over fifty years.

Known For

Play Me Something

Taşkafa, Stories of the Street

Visioni di case che crollano

About Time

A City at Chandigarh

The Embrace: An Essay by John Berger

8 Poems of Emigration

The Economy of the Dead

Filmography

2020
8 Poems of Emigration
as Poet / Narrator (voice)
2017
The Economy of the Dead
as Speaker (voice)
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
as Self
2016
The New Man
as Self
John Berger or The Art of Looking
as Self - Subject
2013
Taşkafa, Stories of the Street
as Narrator
2012
12.Août.2002
as Self (Voice)
2009
Walter, retour en résistance
as Himself
2002
The Spectre of Hope
as Self
Visioni di case che crollano
as Narrator
1992
The Embrace: An Essay by John Berger
as Narrator
1989
W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
as Self
Play Me Something
as Secretary
1985
About Time
as John Berger
1980
Parting Shots from Animals
as Self (narrator)
1979
Pig Earth
as Self
1966
A City at Chandigarh
as Narrator