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  <name><![CDATA[Kenzaburo Oë]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature, commended for being an author &quot;who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today.&quot;]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Jean-Paul Sartre]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Uchko, Ehime Prefecture</hometown>  <born_at>01/31/1935</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Personal Matter]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[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]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Silent Cry]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Quiet Life]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Seventeen and J: Two Novels]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Hiroshima Notes]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Somersault]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath]]></title>
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