Which 1972 Booker winner wrote the novel G.?

The 1972 Booker winner who wrote G. was John Berger. Set mainly in pre–First World War Europe, this experimental novel follows its sexually adventurous protagonist, known only as G., as he gradually develops political awareness.

G. is not a conventional historical novel: Berger uses a fragmented, non-linear structure and frequently draws attention to the act of narration. Its mixture of erotic episodes, political thought and historical detail helped make it one of the most distinctive Booker winners of the early 1970s.

Berger was also an influential art critic, painter and poet. In the same year as his Booker win, his BBC television series and book Ways of Seeing made him widely known beyond literary circles. At the prize ceremony, Berger criticised Booker’s corporate sponsor and donated half the prize money to the British Black Panther movement.