The Nobel Prize in Literature 1994
Awarded on: 1994-10-13
"who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today"
Kenzaburo Oe
Born: 1935-01-31 in Uchiko, Japan
Gender: male
Field: Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate (1935–2023)
Biography
Kenzaburō Ōe was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, and existentialism. Ōe was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today".