1994 Nobel Prize in Literature

1994 Nobel Prize in Literature
Kenzaburō Ōe
"who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today."
Date
  • 13 October 1994 (1994-10-13) (announcement)
  • 10 December 1994
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Japanese novelist Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023) "who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today."[1] He is the second Japanese Nobel laureate in Literature after Yasunari Kawabata was awarded in 1968.[2][3]

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1994 nobelprize.org
  2. ^ Ōe Kenzaburō britannica.com
  3. ^ James Sterngold (14 October 1994). "Nobel in Literature Goes to Kenzaburo Oe of Japan". New York Times. Retrieved 21 May 2021.