Australia




  • Melbourne Memorial Lecture : Over to you

    Sep 27 2023

    The Greek Cultural Center of Melbourne proposes a John Berger Memorial Lecture every year. Yves in Quincy and Isaac in Melbourne will read OVER TO YOU extracts. Multigenerational and worldwide dialogue, to make resonate John and Yves’ post card chat.John and Yves Berger OVER TO YOU is already available in French, Korean, Turkish and Spanish, in English in 2024.
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  • MELBOURNE MEMORIAL LECTURE: Behrouz Boochani and Hoda Afshar

    Dec 07 2022

    The Greek Cultural Center of Melbourne proposes a John Berger Memorial Lecture every year. They invite Behrouz Boochani and Hoda Afshar.Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian born journalist, author, academic and former refugee. Hoda Afshar is an Iranian documentary photographer, based in Melbourne. She is known for her 2018 prize-winning portrait of Behrouz Boochani, who suffered a long imprisonment in the Manus Is…
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  • Nikos Papatergiadis John Berger and Me

    Aug 01 2024

    The Australian sociologist based at the University of Melbourne wrote this book about his friendship with John, their reflections, especially about migrants and migration.
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JOHN BERGER

Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.

He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.

Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.