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Anuk Arudpragasam on G.
Anuk Arudpragasam, author of the 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted A Passage North, on why he thinks John Berger’s 1972 Booker Prize-winning novel G. is ‘hugely impressive’.
John Berger
John Berger was born in London. In 1962, he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps.
His acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G, which won the Booker Prize in 1972. He died in 2017.
Winner The Booker Prize 1972
- By
- John Berger
- Published by
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
John Berger relates the story of ‘G’, a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the twentieth century.
Other nominated books
John Berger imagines a besieged community that finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.