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(Note: all Japanese names in this article are given in the Japanese order, with surname first and given name second)
Oe Kenzaburo (大江 健三郎 Ōe Kenzaburō) is a Japanese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994.
Born January 31, 1935) in a village in Shikoku, he moved to Tokyo at age eighteen to study French literature at Tokyo University and began writing while still a student in 1957, strongly influenced by contemporary writing in France and the United States. See also: Japanese literature
Oe, whose son Oe Hikaru is mentally disabled, often produces deeply personal, semi-autobiographical work; for example, 1968's A Personal Matter (個人的な体験 kojinteki na taiken) is the story of a man who must come to terms with his son's mental disability.
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