Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer
Kenzaburo Oe, Japan's second Nobel Laureate in Literature, with his insistence on engaging the reader in a provocative dialogue on the human condition.
Oe Kenzaburo | Biography, Books, Nobel Prize, & Facts
Japanese novelist whose works express the disillusionment and rebellion of his post-World War II generation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in...
Nobel prize-winning author Kenzaburo Oe dies
Kenzaburo Oe at an anti-nuclear protest in 2013. Getty Images. The writer organised a massive anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo 10 years ago.
Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel prize-winning Japanese writer, dies aged 88
Kenzaburo Oe, a giant of Japanese writing and winner of the Nobel prize in...
Kenzaburo Oe , The Art of Fiction No. 195
The issue of nuclear arms was and is a fundamental question for me. Anti-nuclear activism, simply put, opposes all currently existing nuclear weaponry. On that...
Kenzaburo Oe Finds a Hero in Huckleberry Finn
There is a black youth. The war begins, and he is working at a shipyard; he is in love with a daughter of the prosperous black elite, and he is...
Nobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88
Nobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88.
Japan's Kenzaburo Oe, a Nobel-winning author of poetic fiction, dies at 88
Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe, whose darkly poetic novels were built from his childhood memories during Japan's postwar occupation and from being the...
Kenzaburo Oe’s ‘Death by Water’ (Published 2015)
“Death by Water,” published in Japanese in 2009 and newly translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm, revisits these themes and variations in a minor, valedictory key.
Kenzaburō Ōe: a writer of real humanity and the real Japan
Ōe was the last politically engaged Japanese postwar writer. In his sharp, often merciless, commentaries of his country, he criticised factors damaging...
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Nobel Prize–winning novelist and public intellectual. Has been a prominent anti-nuclear voice in Japan, speaking internationally about nuclear risks.