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Which of the following authors is not a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
a. Orhan Pamuk
b. Gao Xingjian
c. Kenzaburo Oe
d. Milan Kundera
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Kenzaburo Oë

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born

January 31, 1935

gender

male

place of birth

Uchko, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

influences

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature, commended for being an author "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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avg rating: 3.87 | 2,312 ratings | 267 reviews | 73 distinct works | 25 fans

	A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.97 — 770 ratings — published 1969 19 editions	my rating:
	Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.77 — 332 ratings — published 1958 8 editions	my rating:
	Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels: The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, Aghwee the Sky Monster by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 4.04 — 205 ratings — published 1977 9 editions	my rating:
	Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.87 — 159 ratings — published 1979 13 editions	my rating:
	A Quiet Life by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.84 — 102 ratings — published 1995 7 editions	my rating:
	Seventeen and J: Two Novels by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.70 — 74 ratings — published 2002	my rating:
	Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.77 — 65 ratings — published 1999 6 editions	my rating:
	Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.98 — 51 ratings — published 1995 4 editions	my rating:
	Somersault by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.27 — 55 ratings — published 1999 6 editions	my rating:
	The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 4.35 — 34 ratings — published 1985 2 editions	my rating: