Kenzaburo Oe

Kenzaburo Oe was born on 31 January 1935 in Ehime Prefecture, on the island of Shikoku. He studied at the University of Tokyo and received the Akutagawa Prize in 1958. In 1963 his son was born, with a brain hernia that left him disabled. A man of the left, he also wrote essays on politics in the nuclear age and remained an opponent of nuclear energy. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 and died on 3 March 2023.

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• Novel同時代ゲームKenzaburo Oe · 1979not translated into EnglishLiterature