Kenzaburō Ōe
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In this Japanese name, the faimily name is Ōe.
![]() 大江 健三郎 | |
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![]() Kenzaburō Ōe, in 2012 | |
Born | Uchiko, Ehime, Japan | 31 Januar 1935
Thrift | Novelist, short-story writer, essayist |
Naitionality | Japanese |
Period | 1950–present |
Notable warks | A Personal Matter, The Silent Cry |
Notable awairds | Nobel Prize in Leeteratur 1994 |
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎 Ōe Kenzaburō, born January 31, 1935) is a Japanese writer an a major figur in contemporary Japanese leeteratur. His novelles, short stories an essays war strangly influenced bi French an American leeteratur an leeterary theory. They deal wi poleetical, social an filosofical issues includin nuclear wappens, nuclear pouer, social non-conformism, an exeestentialism.
Ōe wis awairdit the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur in 1994 for creatin "an imagined warld, whaur life an meeth condense tae form a disconcertin pictur o the human predicament the day".[1]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ "Oe, Pamuk: World needs imagination", Yomiuri.co.jp; Mey 18, 2008.
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- Varsity o Tokyo alumni
- Princeton Varsity faculty
- Free Varsity o Berlin faculty
- Magic realism writers
- Winners o the Akutagawa Prize
- Battle o Okinawa
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- Japanese anti–nuclear pouer activists
- Japanese anti–nuclear wappens activists
- Exeestentialists