Kenzaburō Ōe
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Kenzaburō Ōe was a Japanese novelist and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994, becoming one of Japan's most internationally recognized writers. His work is considered important for exploring complex themes of identity, disability, and the human condition, and for bringing contemporary Japanese literature to global attention.
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Ōe at the Japanisches Kulturinstitut in Cologne on 11 April 2008
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".
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