News of author Kenzaburo Oe's death reached me a month after I had visited the former village of Ose in Ehime Prefecture where he was born and grew up. A river ran along this small mountain ...

Kenzaburo Oe, Author, William Wetherall, Translator, Kunioki Yanagishita, Translator Grove/Atlantic $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1597-3 Like Oe, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994 ...

Kenzaburo Oe, the Nobel prize-winning author who warned against the dangers of nuclear power and became known as a standard bearer of postwar literature, died of natural causes in the early hours ...