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Kenzaburō Ōe
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Kenzaburō Ōe

1935 – 2023 · aged 88

Japanese writer and Nobel Laureate (1935–2023)

Born
31 Jan 1935 · Ōse
Died
3 Mar 2023 · Tokyo
Part ofJapan230 BCE – todayEmpire of Japan1864 – 1947

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 101 years
  1. 31 Jan 1935BornBorn in Ōse
  2. 1958AwardAkutagawa Prize
  3. 1964AwardShinchosha literature award
  4. 1967AwardTanizaki Prize
  5. 1973AwardNoma Literary Prize
  6. 1983AwardOsaragi Jirō Award
  7. 1983AwardYomiuri Prize
  8. 1984AwardKawabata award
  9. 1990AwardSei Itō Award
  10. 1994AwardAsahi Prize
  11. 1994AwardNobel Prize in Literature
  12. 1994AwardOrder of Culture
  13. 1996AwardGrinzane Cavour Prize
  14. 3 Mar 2023DiedDied in Tokyo

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1935 – 2023).

  1. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  2. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  3. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1938Munich Agreement
  5. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  6. 1939 – 1945World War II
  7. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  8. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  9. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  10. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  11. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  12. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  13. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  14. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  16. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  17. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  19. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  20. 1956Suez Crisis
  21. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  23. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  25. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  27. 1968Prague Spring
  28. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  29. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  30. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  31. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  33. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  34. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  35. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  36. 1985Schengen Agreement
  37. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  38. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  39. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  40. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Biography

Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎, Ōe Kenzaburō; 31 January 1935 – 3 March 2023) was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, and existentialism. Ōe was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today".

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