John Berger, who has died aged 90, was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, art critic, painter, poet, playwright, actor, activist and presenter of television programs including the BBC series Ways of Seeing ; from the mid-1970s on, however, he preferred the term “storyteller”, which better suited the Marxist spirit of his work. John Peter Berger was born at Stoke Newington on November 5, 1926.