Oe Kenzaburo
Ōe Kenzaburō (大江 健三郎, born January 31, 1935) is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994.
Born in a village in Shikoku, 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 Oe Hikari is mentally disabled, often produces deeply personal, semi-autobiographical work; for example, 1968'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 (1957)
- Someone Else's Feet (1957)
- Prize Stock/The Catch (1957)
- Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958)
- Seventeen (1961)
- A Personal Matter (1964)
- Aghwee the Sky Monster (1964)
- Hiroshima Notes (1965)
- The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away (1972)
- The Silent Cry (1967)
- Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (1969)
- The Pinch Runner Memorandum (1976)
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