John Peter Berger (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism, Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is often used as a university text. He lived in France for over fifty years.

Later, he self-exiled to continental Europe, living between the French Alps in summer and the suburbs of Paris in winter. Since then, his production increased considerably, including a variety of genres, from novels to social essays and poetry. One of the most common themes in his books is the dialectics established between modernity, memory, and loss. Another of his remarkable works is the trilogy titled Into Their Labours, which includes the books Pig Earth (1979), Once In E.