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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.
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)
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