Kenzaburo Oe, novelist who won Nobel with 'poetic force,' passes away at 88

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Nobel-winning Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, a leading liberal voice who defended the disenfranchised and challenged the conformity of modern society, has died aged 88.

"With poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today," the Nobel panel said when it awarded him the 1994 literature prize. That all changed after Japan's 1945 surrender, and Oe soon became fascinated by the democratic principles espoused by the occupying US forces.

From the outset, he vowed his work would focus"on the peripheries" of society and promised to never collaborate"with those at the centre of things, who have power", he said in an interview in the mid-2000s.

 

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