Kenzaburō Ōe

Kenzaburō Ōe
Kenzaburō Ōe
	Ōe in 2012
Native name	大江健三郎
Born	31 January 1935; Ōse, Ehime, Japan
Died	3 March 2023 (aged 88)
Occupation	Novelist; short-story writer; essayist;
Alma mater	University of Tokyo
Period	1957–2013
Notable works	A Personal Matter (1964); The Silent Cry (1967);
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature ; 1994 ;
Spouse	Yukari Ikeuchi (m. 1960)
Children	3, including Hikari
Relatives	Mansaku Itami (father-in-law); Juzo Itami (brother-in-law);

Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎, Ōe Kenzaburō, 31 January 1935 – 3 March 2023) 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 creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today".

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