Kenzaburō Ōe

In this Japanese name, the faimily name is Ōe.

Kenzaburō Ōe 大江 健三郎
Kenzaburō Ōe, in 2012
Born	(1935-01-31) 31 Januar 1935 Uchiko, Ehime, Japan
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".