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Kenzaburō Ōe
Kenzaburō Ōe 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 cr…
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culture · Japanese writer (1935–2023) · novelist · essayist · screenwriter · university teacher · science fiction writer · writer · narrator · also Kenzaburō Ōe, Ōe Kenzaburō, Oe Kenzaburo, Kenzaburo Oe, Kenzaburou Oue, Ōe
Born 31 January 1935 · Died 3 March 2023 · Q80095
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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.
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Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2002).
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 5 entries
The Guardian: Kenzaburō Ōe obituary
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The Scotsman: Kenzaburō Ōe: a writer of real humanity and the real Japan
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Asia News: Kenzaburō Ōe, Nobel Prize-winning writer who witnessed Hiroshima, dies
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Died 2023-03-03.
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“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.”
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2015· 1 entry
Ōe stated that he believed that the Japanese government had not adequately acknowledged or apologized for the comfort women issue
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2013· 1 entry
Organized a mass demonstration in Tokyo against nuclear power
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2005· 2 entries
The Kenzaburō Ōe Prize was established by publisher Kodansha to promote Japanese literary novels internationally, with the first prize awarded in 2007
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Two retired Japanese military officers sued Ōe for libel for his 1970 book of essays, Okinawa Notes, in which he had written that members of the Japanese military had coerced masses of Okinawan civilians into committing
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2002).
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2000· 1 entry
Published “An Exchange of Letters” in The Yale Review — cited 1 times.
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Grinzane Cavour Prize (1996).
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1995· 2 entries
Published “Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: Nobel Lecture 1994” in World Literature Today — cited 8 times.
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Published “The Pinch Runner Memorandum” in World Literature Today.
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1994· 4 entries
Awarded Asahi Prize (1994).
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Awarded Order of Culture (1994).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1994).
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Ōe won the Nobel Prize in Literature and was named to receive Japan's Order of Culture
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Sei Itō Award (1990).
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1988· 1 entry
Published “Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma” in World Literature Today — cited 3 times.
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Kawabata award (1984).
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Published “Atarashii hito yo mezameyo” in World Literature Today.
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded Yomiuri Prize (1983).
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Awarded Osaragi Jirō Award (1983).
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1982· 1 entry
Published “The Centre and the Periphery” in Writers in East-West Encounter — cited 1 times.
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Noma Literary Prize (1973).
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Tanizaki Prize (1967).
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1966· 1 entry
“It was nothing more than an attempt to elaborate on the image I have of the Emperor system and its omnipresent shadows, which exist within and outside each one of us. I have never, ever treated the story’s hero with derision.”
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Shinchosha literature award (1964).
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1963· 1 entry
His eldest son, Hikari, was born with a brain hernia
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1961· 1 entry
Ōe's novellas Seventeen and The Death of a Political Youth were published in the Japanese literary magazine Bungakukai
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1959· 1 entry
And 1960, Ōe participated in the Anpo protests against the U
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1958· 2 entries
Awarded Akutagawa Prize for Prize Stock (1958).
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His short story "Shiiku" (飼育) was awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize
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1957· 1 entry
While still a student, strongly influenced by contemporary writing in France and the United States
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1944· 1 entry
His mother, Koseki, became the driving force behind his education, buying him books including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, which had a formative influence on him
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1935· 1 entry
Born 1935-01-31.
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