Category Archives: John Berger

John Berger and Jean Mohr – A Fortunate Man

Listen! John Berger Week, part four. To be honest, I’m getting a bit bored with John Berger Week. I think I might call it to an early close, maybe with a page from Another Way of Telling, which is, I think, my favourite. In the meantime, though, here’s a lovely 1967 Penguin, Berger’s first collaboration [...]

John Berger – G

Listen! John Berger Week, part three. Berger won the 1972 Booker Prize for G and then scandalised the literary world by making a militant acceptance speech in which he pointed out that the firm for whom the prize was named made all its money in exploitive practices in the Caribbean. He gave his prize money [...]

John Berger – A Seventh Man

Listen! John Berger Week, part two. One of Berger’s several collaborations with photographer Jean Mohr, it’s about migrants in Europe – tunnel diggers, maids, agricultural labourers and factory workers. What we now call ‘economic migrants’. It was published in 1975. It’s humane, poetic, heartbreakingly sad and entirely relevant. Buy the paperback edition on Amazon.

John Berger – Boris

Listen! John Berger Week, part one. John Berger’s got a new book out, so I’m going to read from a few of his older ones. I’m starting with a page from his luminous short story ‘Boris’ which appeared in issue nine of Granta in 1983 – his first new fiction since the seventies. Around this [...]

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