Kenzaburō Ōe - Nobel Prize in Literature — 1994
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Kenzaburō Ōe

Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature — 1994
who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today
Citizenship
Empire of Japan Empire of Japan Japan Japan
Languages
Japanese
date of birth
1/31/1935
place of birth
Ōse
date of death
3/3/2023
place of death
Tokyo
Lived
88 years

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notable work
  • The Silent Cry
  • A Personal Matter
employer
  • Princeton University
  • Freie Universität Berlin
member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
occupation
  • university teacher
  • novelist
  • essayist
  • science fiction writer
  • screenwriter
  • writer
  • narrator
field of work
  • literary activity
educated at
  • University of Tokyo
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