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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.
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.
Dec 7, 1994 · Kenzaburo Oe – Nobel Lecture - NobelPrize.org. Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1994. Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself. During the last catastrophic World War I was a little boy and lived in a remote, wooded valley on Shikoku Island in the Japanese Archipelago, thousands of miles away from here.
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.
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...
Mar 13, 2023 · Kenzaburo Oe, a Nobel laureate whose intense novels and defiant politics challenged a modern Japanese culture that he found morally vacant and dangerously tilted toward the same mind-set that led...
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...
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...
Mar 14, 2023 · TOKYO (AP) — 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 died. He was 88.
