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  1. 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.

  2. Learn about the life and works of Ōe Kenzaburō, a Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. Explore his themes of disillusionment, rebellion, and social criticism in his novels and essays.

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  3. Learn about the life and works of the Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994. Explore his themes of war, village, democracy, humanism, and Okinawa in his novels and essays.

  4. Jan 26, 2007 · Kenzaburo Oe, Japans 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.

  5. Mar 3, 2023 · Kenzaburo Oe is a Japanese writer who explores the human condition in his novels and essays. He won the Nobel Prize for his poetic and disconcerting vision of life and myth, influenced by his son's disability and Japan's history.

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  7. 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 bombing...

  8. Mar 13, 2023 · TOKYO — Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe, whose darkly poetic novels were built from his childhood memories during Japan's postwar occupation and from being the parent of a disabled son, has...