Kenzaburō Ōe
1935
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2023
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: existentialism
country of citizenship: Japan
native language: Japanese
languages spoken, written or signed: Japanese
educated at: University of Tokyo
occupation: novelist, essayist, screenwriter, university teacher, science fiction writer, writer
award received: Akutagawa Prize, Shinchosha literature award, Tanizaki Prize, Noma Literary Prize, Yomiuri Prize, Osaragi Jirō Award, Kawabata award, Sei Itō Award, Nobel Prize in Literature, Asahi Prize, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Order of Culture
influenced by: Jean-Paul Sartre
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. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, and existentialism. Ōe was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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