Japanese novelist, essayist wins Nobel Prize for Literature. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | October 13, 1994| | Copyright 
    Kenzaburo Oe, the 59-year-old Japanese novelist and essayist whose leftist political activities and existential fictions have led some Western critics to see him as the Jean-Paul Sartre of Japan, is the 1994 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. 
    Although Japanese literature is considered one of the world's most sophisticated and diverse, Oe (pronounced OH-eh) is only the second Japanese writer to win the literature prize in the award's 94-year history. In 1968, the Academy honored Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972). 
    The Swedish ...

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