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Kenzaburō Ōe
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January 31, 1935
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| gender |
male |
| place of birth |
Uchiko, Ehime Prefecture, Japan |
| genre |
Literature & Fiction
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| influences |
Mark Twain, Selma Lagerlöf, William Blake, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hikari Ōe |
about this author
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎), is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, engage with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, social non-conformism and existentialism.
Ōe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today."
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