Ôe
Kenzaburô was born in 1935 on the Island
of Shikoku as one of seven children. At the age of 18 he moved to
Tokyô to study French literature at the University of Tôkyô, which
he completed with a dissertation on the work of Jean Paul Sartre. He
started to publish essays, stories
and
novels strongly influenced by French and American literature. Ôe,
one of Japans most important authors, was awarded the Nobel Price in
1994.
Ôe Kenzaburô
at the Japan Foundation Cologne / Germany in
Juni 1996