 Kenzaburo Oe Kenzaburo Oe (大江 健三郎 Ōe Kenzaburō, born January 31, 1935) is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994.
Born in a village in Shikoku, Japan, he moved to Tokyo at age eighteen to study French literature at the University of Tokyo and began writing while still a student in 1957, strongly influenced by contemporary writing in France and the United States.
Oe, whose son Hikari is mentally disabled, often produces deeply personal, semi-autobiographical work; for example, 1968's A Personal Matter (個人的な体験, Kojinteki na taiken) is the story of a man who must come to terms with his son's mental disability.
Works translated into English
- Lavish Are The Dead (1957)
- Someone Else's Feet (1957)(ja.他人の足)
- Prize Stock/The Catch (1957)
- Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958)
- Seventeen (1961)(ja.セヴンティーン)
- A Personal Matter (1964)(ja.個人的な体験)
- Aghwee the Sky Monster (1964)(ja.空の怪物アグイー)
- Hiroshima Notes (1965)
- The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away (1972)
- The Silent Cry (1967)(ja.万延元年のフットボール)
- Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (1969)
- The Pinch Runner Memorandum (1976)(ja.ピンチランナー調書)
- Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! (1983)
- Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma (1988)
- An Echo of Heaven (1989)
- A Quiet Life (1990)
- Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures (1995)
- A Healing Family (1995)
- Somersault (1999)
ed: The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath
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