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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 Uchiko, Ehime Prefecture, 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, 1964'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 (死者の奢り, Shisha no ogori, 1957)
• Someone Else's Feet (他人の足, Tanin no ashi, 1957)
• Prize Stock (Shiiku, 1957, also translated as The Catch)
• Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (芽むしり仔撃ち, Memushiri kōchi, 1958)
• Seventeen (セヴンティーン, Sevuntiin, 1961)
• A Personal Matter (個人的な体験, Kojinteki na taiken, 1964)
• Aghwee the Sky Monster (空の怪物アグイー, Sora no kaibutsu Aguii, 1964)
• Hiroshima Notes (ヒロシマ・ノート, Hiroshima nōto, 1965)
• The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away (1972)
• The Silent Cry (万延元年のフットボール, Man'en gan'nen no futtobōru, 1967)
• Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (我らの狂気を生き延びる道を教えよ, Warera no kyōki wo ikinobiru michi wo oshieyo, 1969)
• The Pinch Runner Memorandum (ピンチランナー調書, Pinchi ran'naa chōsho, 1976)
• Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! (新しい人よ、眼ざめよ, Atarashii hito yo mezameyo, 1983)
• ed: The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath (1984)
• Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma (1988)
• An Echo of Heaven (Jinsei no shinseki, 1989)
• A Quiet Life (静かな生活, Shizuka na seikatsu, 1990)
• Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself: The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures (曖昧な日本の私, Aimai na Nihon no watashi, 1995)
• A Healing Family (廻復する家族, Kaifukusuru kazoku, 1995)
• Somersault (宙返り, Chūgaeri, 1999)

Works not translated into English

• M/T and the narrative about the marvels of the forest (M/Tと森のフシギの物語, 1986)

External links

• Nobel e-Museum Biography
• Nobel Laureate page
• Biography and booklist
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