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Kenzaburō Ōe

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Kenzaburō Ōe

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

Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate (1935–2023)

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Kenzaburō Ōe was a male artist from Japan whose work period began in 1957 and ended in 2013. He was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Nobel Literature collection. His genres included ballad, pop, and singer-songwriter styles.

He was the recipient of one Nobel Prize. His works include *Jōkyō e*, *Hiroshima e no samazama na tabi*, *Sōzō to sōzōryoku*, *Kowaremono toshite no ningen*, and *Sōsho Bunka no Genzai*. He is referenced by 845 other encyclopedia articles.

Born on January 31, 1935, and dying on March 3, 2023, he had 323 works listed in the Open Library. His name in kana is "おおえ けんざぶろう." He is also associated with five works in Crossref data.

Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1935-01-31
Died
2023-03-03
Works
323

Top works

  • 状況へ
  • 広島へのさまざまな旅
  • 創造と想像力
  • 壊れものとしての人間
  • 叢書文化の現在 ／

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Japan
Active from
1960-09-06
balladpopsinger-songwriter

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Misreading, Espionage and “Beautiful Martyrdom”: On Hearing the Okinawa ‘Mass Suicides’ Suit Court Verdict. UPDATE

    · 2008 · cited 8x

  2. Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: Nobel Lecture 1994

    · 1995 · cited 6x

  3. Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma

    · 1988 · cited 3x

  4. An Exchange of Letters

    · 2000 · cited 1x

  5. The Day the Emperor Spoke in a Human Voice

    · 2002 · cited 1x

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Quotes

  • “To repeat the error by exhibiting, through the construction of nuclear reactors, the same disrespect for human life is the worst possible betrayal of the memory of Hiroshima’s victims.”
  • “The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Europe. I fervently hope that my pursuit, as a Japanese, of literature and culture will, in some small measure, repay Western Europe for the light it has shed upon the human condition.”
  • “It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.”
  • “Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.”
  • “The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
  • “If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.”

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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”

NobelPrize.org →

Wikidata facts

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
Image
Paris - Salon du livre 2012 - Kenzaburō Ōe - 003.jpg
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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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Encyclopedic overview

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".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kenzaburō Ōe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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