Kenzaburo Oe

Kenzaburo Oe (大江 健三郎 born 1935) is a Japanese writer. Born and raised in a village in Shikoku, he moved to Tokyo at age eighteen to study French literature at Tokyo University and began writing while still a student in 1957, strongly influenced by contemporary writing in France and the United States. Oe won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994.

See also: Japanese literature

Works in English

• Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958)
• A Personal Matter (1968)
• The Silent Cry (1974)
• Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (1977)
• Hiroshima Notes (1982)
• Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma (1988)

External Links

• http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1994/oe-bio.html
• http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/oe.htm\n