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Kenzaburō Ōe

Also known as Ōe Kenzaburō, Oe Kenzaburo, Kenzaburo Oe, Kenzaburou Oue

Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate (1935–2023)

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Kenzaburō Ōe (Japanese: おおえけんざぶろう) was a writer whose career spanned from 1957 to 2013. He was born on January 31, 1935, and died on March 3, 2023.

Ōe received one Nobel Prize. His work is included in the Nobel Literature collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1994
“who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today”

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Empire of Japan
Place of death: Tokyo
Child: Hikari Ōe
Occupation: writer
Educated at: University of Tokyo
Employer: Freie Universität Berlin
Languages spoken: Japanese
Native language: Japanese
Award: Commander of the Legion of Honour
Notable work: The Silent Cry
Genre: essay
Movement: existentialism
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Commons category: Kenzaburō Ōe
topic's main category: Category:Kenzaburō Ōe
date of birth: 1935-01-31
relative: Jūzō Itami
name in kana: おおえけんざぶろう
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
name in native language: 大江健三郎
influenced by: Jean-Paul Sartre
start of work period: 1957-00-00
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
nominated for: International Booker Prize
date of death: 2023-03-03
manner of death: natural causes
cause of death: myocardial infarction
end of work period: 2013-00-00

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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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