Reminder that when John Berger won the 1972 Booker prize, he gave half the prize money to the Black Panthers He spent his life spinning a web of relationships. I loved #JohnBerger and so did the people I love most on this earth. “I intend as a revolutionary writer, to share this prize with people in and from the Caribbean,” Berger said at the time.īerger was also an ardent supporter of the Palestinian cause. When he won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1972 for his novel, G, Berger spoke against the prize’s roots in Caribbean slave labour and pledged to give half his reward to the Black Panthers, a group he said more accurately reflected his own politics.
I intend as a revolutionary writer, to share this prize with people in and from the Caribbean He consistently, provocatively challenged traditional interpretations of art and society and the connections between the two. The author of criticisms, novels, poetry, screenplays and many books, Berger had considerable influence as a late 20th-century thinker. He was 90.īerger died at his home in the Paris suburb of Antony. John Berger, the British art critic, intellectual and prodigious author whose pioneering book, Ways of Seeing, redefined the way a generation saw art, died on Monday.
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