Former Fellow of TNI, Berger is an acclaimed novelist, playwright, screenwriter, painter and art critic. His innumerable books, include G., for which he was honoured with England's Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Seventh Man (with Jean Mohr) about migrant workers in Europe, translated into all the languages of the subjects, including Bengali, Turkish and Arabic; Ways of Seeing, a product of his popular BBC television critical art series; and Into their Labours, a fictional trilogy about peasant life, a favourite read by Sub-Commandante Marcos to the children in Chiapas! His latest book is King: A Street Story (Bloomsbury, UK 1999, paperback due May 2000 and Editions Olivier, France 1999; also published in Germany, Sweden and soon out in Spain, Greece and Turkey). King is a story of the new urban homeless. In Sweden, the book is sold for a 50% commission on the streets by the homeless magazine sellers, and in Germany, the proceeds of various readings go to homeless peoples’ organisations.

John Berger profile
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