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John Berger obituary | John Berger | The Guardian

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Critic whose TV series Ways of Seeing posed questions about art and society, and a writer whose fiction reflected his life in rural France

John Berger at his home near Paris in 2009. On winning the Booker prize for his novel G in 1972, he attacked the sponsors’ exploitation of their Caribbean workforce, and said he would give half the prize to the Black Panthers. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images View image in fullscreen John Berger at his home near Paris in 2009. On winning the Booker prize for his novel G in 1972, he attacked the sponsors’ exploitation of their Caribbean workforce, and said he would give half the prize to the Black Panthers. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images John Berger This article is more than 9 years

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