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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.
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.
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...
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 portrayal of life and myth, and his pacifist views.
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...
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.
