Kenzaburo Oe

Nobel Prize in Literature 1994

“who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today”

Kenzaburo Oe was a Japanese novelist. He was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature for his poetic force in creating an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today.