John Berger is the Booker Prize-winning author of G and To the Wedding and this classic work is his best known, translated into 9 languages Published in April to coincide with Collaborations, a month-long John Berger celebration that is being organised by a team of film-makers, journalists, writers and friends. The season of events will include a film and TV retrospective at the NFT; readings at the South Bank Centre with the participation of Michael Ondaatje, Arundhati Roy and many other writers; a 'performance' at King's Cross orchestrated by Simon McDunny of Complicite; readings from Here i
John Berger was born in London in 1926. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include the Booker Prize-winning novel G, To the Wedding and King. Amongst his outstanding studies of art and photography are Another Way of Telling, The Success and Failure of Picasso, Titian: Nymph and Shepherd (with Katya Berger) and the internationally acclaimed Ways of Seeing. He lives and works in a small village in the French Alps, the setting for his trilogy Into Their Labours (Pig Earth, Once in Europa and Lilac and Flag). His collection of essays The Shape of a Pocket was published in 2001. His latest fiction, Here Is Where We Meet is published by Bloomsbury in 2005.
'Berger is a writer one demands to know more about ... He has an intriguing and powerful mind and talent' New York Times 'He handles thoughts the way an artist handles paint. His mind is spattered with colour ... his writing has a physical reality' The Times 'There is a great stillness in Berger's prose. But after a few pages, his statements start to sing and go on singing' New Republic 'John Berger is genius invisible. His life's work is synonymous with the creation of unforgettable living portraits' Scotsman
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