British · 1926–2017
John Berger won the 1972 Booker Prize for "G." and donated half the prize money to the Black Panthers, explaining that the prize's source—Booker McConnell—derived from Caribbean sugar and slavery. The British art critic and novelist wrote about seeing, labor, and social justice across essays, fiction, and collaborative works. "Ways of Seeing" transformed how readers think about art. Berger spent his later years in a French Alpine village, writing about peasant life and politics until his death in 2017.