जॉन बर्ज़र / John Berger
John Peter Berger (born 5 November 1926) is an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G won the 1972 Booker Prize.
Among his influential works as an art critic are Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing (1960), The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965), Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the U.S.S.R (1969), The Moment of Cubism and Other Essays (1969), and Ways of Seeing (1972), based on a BBC television series and celebrated for its iconoclasm about traditional notions of art. Open-ended rather than dogmatic, his art criticism is very much concerned with the pressures of social context and class relations on artistic form.
For the past twenty years Berger has lived in a small village in the French Alps. Fascinated by the traditions and endangered way of life of the mountain people, he has written about them both in his fiction and nonfiction.
Berger’s most recent novel, From A to X, was longlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize; Berger and Salman Rushdie were the only former winners to be nominated in that year.