A Personal Matter

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Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935, in Ose village in Shikoku, Western Japan. His first stories were published in 1957, while he was still a Student. In 1958, he won the coveted Akutagawa prize for his novella The Catch. His first novel was published in 1958—Pluck the Flowers, Gun the Kids. In 1959 the publication of a novel, Our Age, brought the critics down on Oe's head: they deplored the dark pessimism of the book at a time supposed to be the new, bright epoch in modern Japanese history. During the anti-security riots in 1960, Oe traveled to Peking representing young Japanese writers and there met with Mao.
In 1961, he traveled in Russia and Western Europe, meeting with Sartre in Paris and writing a series of essays about youth in the West. In 1962 he published the novel Screams; in 1963, The Perverts, and a book memorializing Hiroshima called simply, Hiroshima Notes. In 1964, Oe published two novels, Adventures in Daily Life an6 A Personal Matter, for which... Tovább

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Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935, in Ose village in Shikoku, Western Japan. His first stories were published in 1957, while he was still a Student. In 1958, he won the coveted Akutagawa prize for his novella The Catch. His first novel was published in 1958—Pluck the Flowers, Gun the Kids. In 1959 the publication of a novel, Our Age, brought the critics down on Oe's head: they deplored the dark pessimism of the book at a time supposed to be the new, bright epoch in modern Japanese history. During the anti-security riots in 1960, Oe traveled to Peking representing young Japanese writers and there met with Mao.
In 1961, he traveled in Russia and Western Europe, meeting with Sartre in Paris and writing a series of essays about youth in the West. In 1962 he published the novel Screams; in 1963, The Perverts, and a book memorializing Hiroshima called simply, Hiroshima Notes. In 1964, Oe published two novels, Adventures in Daily Life an6 A Personal Matter, for which he won the Shinchosha Literary Prize. In the summer of 1965 he participated in the Kissinger International Seminar at Harvard. In 1967, Oe completed his most recent novel. Football in the First Year of Man-nen, currently the most talked about book in Japan, for which he won the 1967 Tanizaki Prize.
Oe lives in Tokyo with his wife and two children.
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