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Nobel prize-winning writer whose novels linked the personal and political in exploring fatherhood and the legacy of war in Japan

Kenzaburo Oe died on Monday at the age of 88.

Ōe Kenzaburō, (born January 31, 1935, Ehime prefecture, Shikoku, Japan—died March 3, 2023), Japanese novelist whose works express the disillusionment and rebellion of his post-World War II generation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. Ōe came from a family of wealthy landowners who lost most of their property with the occupation-imposed land reform following the war. He entered the University of Tokyo in 1954 and graduated in 1959. The brilliance of his writing while he was still a student caused him to be hailed the most promising young writer since Mishima Yukio. �...

People in Japan are mourning the death of Nobel Prize laureate author Kenzaburo Oe and praised his tireless social activism and anti-war campaigns.

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