Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935 in the remote mountain village of Ose on Shikoku, the smallest of Japan's four main islands. The winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature, he is considered one of the most dynamic and revolutionary writers to have emerged in Japan since World War II.
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Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for creating 'an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today.' In Death by Water, his recurring protagonist and literary alter-ego retur... SEE MORE