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Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎, Ōe Kenzaburō, 31 January 1935 – 3 March 2023) was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature.
Ōe Kenzaburō (born January 31, 1935, Ehime prefecture, Shikoku, Japan—died March 3, 2023) was a Japanese novelist whose works express the disillusionment and rebellion of his post- World War II generation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.
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Mar 13, 2023 · The Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe has died at the age of 88. Strongly influenced by French and American literature, he was known for his powerful accounts of the atomic...
Biographical. Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935, in a village hemmed in by the forests of Shikoku, one of the four main islands of Japan. His family had lived in the village tradition for several hundred years, and no one in the Oe clan had ever left the village in the valley.
Mar 3, 2023 · Kenzaburo Oe. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1994. Born: 31 January 1935, Uchiko, Japan. Died: 3 March 2023, Tokyo, Japan. Residence at the time of the award: Japan. Prize motivation: “who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today” Language: Japanese.
Jan 26, 2007 · Kenzaburo Oe, Japan’s second Nobel Laureate in Literature, with his insistence on engaging the reader in a provocative dialogue on the human condition, is one of the most impassioned voices of conscience countering the country’s minimalist cultural tradition that puts imagery and aesthetics of silence above social and political concerns.
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Mar 13, 2023 · Japanese Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe, a writer who was renowned for a strong pacifist stance that weaved its way into much of his work, has died of “old age”, his publisher confirmed...
