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The Shape Of A Pocket event 2025
To pass the Berger Baton, Jan Woolf proposes this second The Shape Of A Pocket event to share John Berger’s world and… READ MORE
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Japan Screenings: Four Seasons in Quincy
Thanks to Sungwon Kim, translator of A Seventh Man (1975) published by blkswn publishing in 2024, Theatre Image Forum Shibuya proposes… READ MORE
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Lecture: Over To You
Yves Berger and Ariane Gülich joined Point Reyes Books, Californian bookshop, via Zoom on 15th of November 2024 for a… READ MORE
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Hackney Museum: Night of celebration
John Berger was born on 5th of November 1926 in Stoke Newington, Hackney district of London. On Tuesday 5th of… READ MORE
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Leyla Josephine: Spoken Word Poetry
Leyla Josphine published a book of poetry In Public / In Private (Burning Eye Books, 2022, sold out) including the… READ MORE
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Ways of Travelling Qattan Foundation book
Despite the genocide and the war, Palestinian cultural world is still in resistance keeping to work, think, create, publish… Based… READ MORE
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Iona Heath Ways of Learning
The English Doctor Iona Heath, wrote Ways of Learning – John Berger for the Oxford University Press collection “My Reading”… READ MORE
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Nikos Papatergiadis John Berger and Me
The Australian sociologist based at the University of Melbourne wrote this book about his friendship with John, their reflections, especially… READ MORE
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Here is Where We Meet podcast
Michael Morris and James Lingwood previously co-directors of Artangel, launched with TANK Magazine a new podcast HERE IS WHERE WE… READ MORE
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Into Their Labours meeting
In 1973, John Berger set up in Quincy in Giffre Valley to immerse himself into peasant world to write his… READ MORE
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The Shape Of A Pocket events
To pass the Berger Baton, Jan Woolf and Tina Grace launch a series of bi-annual The Shape Of A Pocket… READ MORE
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Return To My Native Land edited by Jason Allen-Paisant
Return To My Native Land by Aimé Césaire translated by John Berger and Anya Bostock In 1969, John and Anna translated Return… READ MORE
Today
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.