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I've corrected the statement that Berger settled in the French Alps in 1962. Although he left England at that point and seems to have been based mainly in France during the rest of the 1960s, it wasn't until he carried out the research for A Seventh Man that he was drawn to the Haute Savoie and the village where he still lives. This marked a watershed in his writing. Though, since the Literary Encyclopedia article which fixes the year as 1974 contains at least one error in the same sentence and I can't find a second source, I've left this as the mid-1970s. (Dougald Hine, http://www.dougald.co.uk)

Please note his column in The Guardian of 12/17/06 which begins:

Today I am supporting a world-wide appeal to teachers, intellectuals and artists to join the cultural boycott of the state of Israel, as called for by over a hundred Palestinian academics and artists, and - very importantly - also by a number of Israeli public figures, who outspokenly oppose their country's illegal occupation of the Palestine territories of the West Bank and Gaza. Their call, printed in the Guardian today, can be read here. A full list of signatories can be found here.

The boycott is an active protest against two forms of exclusion which have persisted, despite many other forms of protestations, for over 60 years - for almost three generations. During this period the state of Israel has consistently excluded itself from any international obligation to heed UN resolutions or the judgement of any international court. To date, it has defied 246 Security Council Resolutions.