Japanese Nobel Prize in Literature Kenzaburo Oe, in a file photo Author: Yuriko Nakao | Reuters
The writer, one of the most important contemporary Japanese novelists, died of natural causes
Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oeawarded the prize Nobel Prize for Literature 1994, died this Monday at the age of 88 of natural causes. “He died of old age in the early morning of March 3,” publisher Kodansha said in a statement, adding that a family funeral had already been held.
Writer, one of the most significant contemporary Japanese novelists, was born in 1935 in Ehime Prefecture and studied French literature at the University of Tokyo. He also stood out with an active role in post-war democratic generationsopposition to militarism and defense of pacifism.
In 1958, he finished his first novel, Pulling seeds, shooting children, set in wartime, becoming one of his most famous titles. Years later, in 1994, he would become the second Japanese – and the last at this time – to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, “for his poetic power”, after Yasunari Kawabata had won it in 1968.
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