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: 3.88 | 2,071 ratings | 234 reviews | 70 distinct works | 18 fans

	A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.99 — 688 ratings — published 1969 17 editions	my rating:
	Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.76 — 298 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 — 178 ratings — published 1977 9 editions	my rating:
	Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.84 — 143 ratings — published 1979 13 editions	my rating:
	A Quiet Life by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.85 — 92 ratings — published 1995 7 editions	my rating:
	Seventeen and J: Two Novels by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.75 — 68 ratings — published 2002	my rating:
	Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.74 — 58 ratings — published 1999 6 editions	my rating:
	Hiroshima Notes by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 4.02 — 49 ratings — published 1995 4 editions	my rating:
	Somersault by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 3.24 — 51 ratings — published 1999 5 editions	my rating:
	The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath by Kenzaburo Oë avg rating 4.36 — 33 ratings — published 1985 2 editions	my rating: