Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, dies in Japan at the age of 88. On the death of the author FAN.
Kenzaburo Oe is a Japanese author who received the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for his writings on social and political issues. He was a human rights activist and influenced the younger generation of writers in Japan.
The author was born in Tokyo in 1935. His father was a writer and journalist, and his mother was an artist. Kenzaburo published his first novel in 1958 and was soon recognized as the author of works dealing with the social and moral issues of Japan.
He became active in the peace and nuclear disarmament movement in the 1960s and continued to advocate for human rights throughout his career. In recent years Kenzaburo has become more experimental in his art, including the use of symbolism, surrealism and fantasy in his works.