biography
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Berger, John (Peter)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, playwright, and art critic, born in London, UK. After studying at the Central and Chelsea Schools of Art he began to work as a painter and a drawing teacher, but soon turned to writing. His Marxism and artistic background are ever present in his novels, which include A Painter of Our Time (1958), The Foot of Clive (1962), and Corker's Freedom (1964). G (1972), a story of migrant workers in Europe, won the Booker Prize. In later years he has been living in a peasant farming community in the French Jura, where he worked on a projected trilogy, Into Their Labours, about modern peasant life, completed in 1991. Later novels include Photocopies (1996) and I Could Read the Sky (1999). |
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