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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. 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.

  3. 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...

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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...

  7. 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.

  8. 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...

  9. Mar 16, 2023 · The death at 88 of Japanese writer and Nobel prize winner Kenzaburō Ōe on March 3 leaves a deep wound in his readers. But also in the Japanese community, which has lost one of its most powerful...

  10. 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.

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