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John Berger is a storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic. He is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years, who has explored the relationships between the individual and society, culture and politics and experience and expression in a series of novels, bookworks, essays, plays, films, photographic collaborations and performances, unmatched in their diversity, ambition and reach. His television series and book Ways of Seeing revolutionised the way that Fine Art is read and understood. Selcuk Demirel was born in Artvin on May 18, 1954. His first drawings were published when he was a high school student in Ankara (1973). Later, which studying to be an architect, he continued to publish his work in some of the leading newspapers and magazines. He moves to Paris in 1978 and still lives there. His work ranges from book illustrations, magazine covers, albums of drawings to children's books, postcards and posters. His books have been published in many European countries as well as in Japan. He's also held many personal exhibitions all over the world.

"John Berger writes about what is important, not just interesting. In contemporary English letters he seems to me peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world."