Japanese writer and Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburo Oe Japanese broadcaster Kodansha announced on Monday that he died of natural causes, aged 88, in the early hours of March 3.
In a statement, the broadcaster asked that they not be interviewed out of respect for the already celebrating family. private funeraland stated that a public ceremony will be held soon.
Born in the governorship ehime (southwest Japan) In 1935, Oe studied French literature. University of Tokyo and won the Nobel Prize in 1994, becoming the second Japanese author to receive this recognition.
The author made his literary debut with text. “A Strange Job” (1957) and gained fame thanks to “Hiroshima Notebooks” (1965) recounts his trip to this city in southern Japan in 1963 and later to interview the victims of the 1945 atomic bomb.
It would later be published in 1970. “Okinawa Notebooks”, A travelogue in which Oe describes his encounters with the inhabitants of this group of islands in southern Japan, questioning the living conditions in this region and the power of the central government over the region.
More journalistically, he wrote articles about Oe in newspapers and magazines. nuclear situation He opposed today’s Japan and took an active part in various groups against this type of energy.
The author was awarded the 1957 University of Tokyo Literature Prize, as well as the 1994 Nobel Prize. akutagawa In 1958, at the age of only 23, he was recognized as the most important among young writers in the archipelago.