The Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994, has died at the age of 88 of natural causes. “He died of old age at dawn on March 3,” the Kodansha publisher reported in a statement, adding that a family funeral has already been held.
The writer, one of the most important contemporary Japanese novelists, was born in 1935 in Ehime prefecture and studied French Literature at the University of Tokyo. Likewise, he has stood out for his active role in the postwar democratic generation, opposing militarism and defending pacifism.
In 1958 he finished his first novel, ‘Uproot the seeds, shoot the children’set in wartime, becoming one of its best-known titles.
Years later, in 1994 he would become the second Japanese -and last for the moment- to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, “for its poetic force”after Yasunari Kawabata obtained this award in 1968.
Source: Lasexta
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