# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-berger
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:35:20.680Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-berger"
name: "John Berger"
slug: "john-berger"
description: "John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize. His essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is hugely culturally influential and continues to be widely read today. He lived in France for over fifty years."
tagline: "British painter, writer and art critic (1926-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Berger-2009_(6).jpg?width=1200"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1926-11-05"
deathDate: "2017-01-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump