Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing ; the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours ; Here Is Where We Meet ; the Booker Prize-winning novel G ; Hold Everything Dear ; the Man Booker-longlisted From A to X ; and A Seventh Man .