Katya Berger Andreadakis

About Looking

Book 1980

Books, Art, Essays, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Painting

About Looking, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1980. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions de l’Arche (1995).
As a novelist, essayist, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal …
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And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

Book 1984

Books, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Philosophy, Poetry

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos, book of essays and poems by John Berger, first edition in 1984. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions Champ Vallon (1991), new traduction for Éditions Hourra (2024).
This stunning work is a shoebox filled with delicate love letters containing poetry and thoughts on mortality, art, love and absence, capturing moments in time that hover above …
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King: A Street Story

Book 1999

Books, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Novels, Workers

King: A Street Story, novel by John Berger, first edition in 1999. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (1999).
A furious homage to the homeless and a lyrical meditation on language and experience. You will be led to a place you haven’t been, from where few stories come. You will be led by King, a dog (or is he?) to a wasteland beside the motorway called Saint Valery.
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Here is Where We Meet

Book 2005

Books, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Novels

Here is Where We Meet, novel by John Berger, first edition in 2005. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (2006).
No one appreciates the detail of being alive more than the dead. In Lisbon, a man encounters his mother sitting on a park bench who laughs with the impudence of a schoolgirl. She has been dead for fifteen years. In Krakow market he recognises Ken, his passeur,…
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From A to X

Book 2008

Books, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Palestine, Politics

From A to X, novel by John Berger, first edition in 2008. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (2009).
Novel about love and resistance, From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily…
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Titian : Nymph and Shepherd

Book 1996

Art, Books, Collaborations, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting

Titian : Nymph and Shepherd, book of letters by Katya and John Berger, first edition in 1996.
This book is first a dialogue between a daughter and a father about life, physical sensation, mortality. Both seem to listen to the other with great attention. Secondly, it is the extraordinary vehicle for a series of insights into the everyday life and the art of the great Venetian master, following an uncanny incident …
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Mantegna : Lying Down to Sleep

Book 2010

Art, Books, Collaborations, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting

Mantegna : Lying Down to Sleep, book of letters by Katya and John Berger, first edition in 2010.
The clouds in the Oculus of the Bridal Chamber, painted by Andrea Mantegna at St George’s Castle in Mantua, are the starting point for an intimate dialogue between father and daughter John and Katya Berger, held as they observe the frescoes in the famous room. The conversation leads to a personal exploration of…
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Flying Skirts

Book 2010

Books, Collaborations, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Poetry, Quincy, Tributes, Yves Berger

Flying Skirts book by Yves and John Berger as an elegy to Beverly Bancroft (1942-2014), first edition in 2015. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (2015).
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Over To You

Book 2019

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger

Over To You correspondence book of texts and images by Yves and John Berger, first edition in french in 2019, in english in 2024. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for L’Atelier contemporain (2019).
Compelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist, John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art,…
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Seeing Through Drawing

Book 2017

About John Berger, Art, Books, Collaborations, Drawing, John Christie, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting, Tributes, UK, Yves Berger

Seeing Through Drawing, art catalogue, texts and correspondences with John Berger and others, edited by John Christie, first edition in 2017.
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Lausanne: Théâtre Vidy and Complicité

Jun 15 2026

From 22nd of October to 8th of November in Lausanne, Théâtre Vidy and partners propose a wide range of events around the Simon McBurney solo show Questions for John, a Complicité production.
Actor and director, Simon McBurney was a close friend of John Berger. He founded the renowned maverick theatre company Complicité, with which they created in 1995 The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol adapted from John Berger…
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Do you know what I watch?

Jun 25 2026

Animal traces in John Berger’s work
* Version française ci-dessous *
“Do you know what I watch?” is a choral reading devised by Katya Berger-Andreadakis. It will be read in several places by Katya, Jacob and Yves Berger, John Berger’s children. A family contribution to this centenary.
There is hardly any book of John Berger’s that doesn’t include a few pages about animals. Both as a writer and …
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