A Oe, Kenzaburo creator Nathan,John [Editor] text xx London : Picador Book ,1996 9999 Nobel Prize Edition monographic und 176 p. Kenzaburō Ōe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped son. The Swedish Academy lauded Ōe for his "poetic force [that] creates an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today. His most personal book, A Personal Matter, is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child. / Kenzaburo Oe ; edited by John Nathan Literature Japanese Literature 895.635 OE 9780330344357 260603 20261001105558.0