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This weekend I have two pieces in the Japan Times, one a look back at Kenzaburo Oe’s A Quiet Life, the other a review of Lian Hearn’s latest novel, Emperor of the Eight Islands.
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This week’s Japan Times ‘Essentials’ piece is about Kenzaburo Oe’s A Personal Matter. Oe is one of only two Japanese writers to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and is, in my opinion, one of the finest and most important writers at work today.
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Nobel-winning anti-war author Kenzaburo Oe dies at 88
Kenzaburo Oe, the Nobel prize-winning author who warned against the dangers of nuclear power and became known as a standard bearer of postwar literature, died of natural causes in the early hours of March 3.
He was 88.
His family has already held a funeral for him.
Known as a towering literary giant and prominent social activist, Oe tackled political, social and philosophical questions of his time, and his works frequently pursued the themes of resurrection and salvation.
Oe was born in 1935 in Ose village in Ehime Prefecture, now the Ose district in the town of Uchiko in the prefecture.
In 1957, when he was still a student at the French literature department of the University of Tokyo, his short novel “Kimyo na Shigoto” (The Strange Work), won high praise and the university newspaper’s May Festival Prize.
That led him to publish the short story “Shisha no ogori” (Lavish are the Dead) in a literature magazine that year.
He drew attention as a writer of the new generation and won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for “Shiiku” (The Catch) in 1958.
The novel is set in a village in Japan during war, where an enemy solider is imprisoned.
Oe started the serial essay “Hiroshima noto” (Hiroshima Note) for the Sekai magazi