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John Berger
(1926 - 2017)John Berger, novelist, painter, and art historian, was born in London in 1926. After serving in the British army from 1944 to 1946, he attended the Central School of Art and the Chelsea School of Art in London. He taught drawing from 1948 to 1955, and continued to paint all of his life.
In 1952 Berger began writing for London's New Statesman, and quickly became an influential Marxist art critic. Beginning with his first novel in 1958, Berger also produced a significant body of fiction, including G. (1972), winner of England's Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
In 1952 Berger began writing for London's New Statesman, and quickly became an influential Marxist art critic. Beginning with his first novel in 1958, Berger also produced a significant body of fiction, including G. (1972), winner of England's Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Novels
Marcel Frishman (1958)
The Foot of Clive (1962)
Corker's Freedom (1964)
G. (1972)
Keeping a Rendezvous (1991)
To the Wedding (1995)
Isabelle (1998) (with Nella Bielski)
King (1999)
Here Is Where We Meet (2005)
From A to X (2008)
The Foot of Clive (1962)
Corker's Freedom (1964)
G. (1972)
Keeping a Rendezvous (1991)
To the Wedding (1995)
Isabelle (1998) (with Nella Bielski)
King (1999)
Here Is Where We Meet (2005)
From A to X (2008)
Collections
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos (poems) (1984)
Photocopies (1996)
Pages of the Wound (poems) (1996)
Collected Poems (poems) (2014)
Photocopies (1996)
Pages of the Wound (poems) (1996)
Collected Poems (poems) (2014)
Plays
Jonah Who Will Be Twenty-Five in the Year 2000 (1983)
A Question of Geography (1987) (with Nella Bielski)
The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol (2003)
A Question of Geography (1987) (with Nella Bielski)
The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol (2003)
Non fiction
A Painter of Our Time (1958)
Permanent Red (1960)
The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965)
A Fortunate Man (1967) (with Jean Mohr)
Art and Revolution (1969)
Moment of Cubism and Other Essays (1969)
Selected Essays and Articles (1972)
Ways of Seeing (1972)
A Seventh Man (1975) (with Jean Mohr)
About Looking (1980)
Another Way of Telling (1982)
About Time (1985)
The White Bird (1985)
The Sense of Sight (1986)
Goya's Last Portrait (1989) (with Nella Bielski)
Paul Hogarth (1989)
Pequod (1990)
At the Edge of the World (1999) (with Jean Mohr)
The Shape of a Pocket (2001)
Rays of the Rising Sun (2001)
Selected Essays (2001)
Titian (2003) (with Katya Berger Andreadakis)
Hold Everything Dear (2007)
War With No End (2007) (with Naomi Klein, Hanif Kureishi, China Miéville, Arundhati Roy, Joe Sacco, Ahdaf Soueif and Haifa Zangana)
Why Look at Animals? (2009)
Bento's Sketchbook (2011)
Understanding a Photograph (2013)
Portraits (2015)
Confabulations (2016)
Landscapes (2016)
Smoke (2017)
Railtracks (2018) (with Anne Michaels)
The Red Tenda of Bologna (2018)
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible (2020)
Permanent Red (1960)
The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965)
A Fortunate Man (1967) (with Jean Mohr)
Art and Revolution (1969)
Moment of Cubism and Other Essays (1969)
Selected Essays and Articles (1972)
Ways of Seeing (1972)
A Seventh Man (1975) (with Jean Mohr)
About Looking (1980)
Another Way of Telling (1982)
About Time (1985)
The White Bird (1985)
The Sense of Sight (1986)
Goya's Last Portrait (1989) (with Nella Bielski)
Paul Hogarth (1989)
Pequod (1990)
At the Edge of the World (1999) (with Jean Mohr)
The Shape of a Pocket (2001)
Rays of the Rising Sun (2001)
Selected Essays (2001)
Titian (2003) (with Katya Berger Andreadakis)
Hold Everything Dear (2007)
War With No End (2007) (with Naomi Klein, Hanif Kureishi, China Miéville, Arundhati Roy, Joe Sacco, Ahdaf Soueif and Haifa Zangana)
Why Look at Animals? (2009)
Bento's Sketchbook (2011)
Understanding a Photograph (2013)
Portraits (2015)
Confabulations (2016)
Landscapes (2016)
Smoke (2017)
Railtracks (2018) (with Anne Michaels)
The Red Tenda of Bologna (2018)
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible (2020)
Awards
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