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Nobel Literature Prize for Oe

Obsession turns into style
STOCKHOLM. Oct 13: Kenzahuro Oe. whose braindamaged child became a prl mary symbol In his works showing the dark side of post war Japan, won the Nobel prize in literature today reports UNB.
Oe. 59. invented a vivid, almost assaultive writing style, a far departure from trauihou il Japanese literary expression
Among-his most important works .was the 1967 novel The Silent Cry which deals with peoples relationship in a world where knowledge pas sions. dreams, ambitions and attitudes merge into h other. ’ the academy said
Kenzahuro Oe (pronounced ken-za-boo-roh oh eh) is ih< second Japanese writer to wi the Nobel literature prize l, 1968. the academy bonoi.ied Yjisunari Kawabata.
Oe said today that he was heavily influenced by author-like the playwright and novel isl Kobo Abe and novelist Masuji Ibuse. both of whom died last year.
"It was thanks to what these modern novelists have built up
that I was able to win while 1 was still alive." he said.
At first a leftwing critic of postwar Japan. Oe changed jvhen his first son. Hikari, was born 31 years ago with brain damage
Oe's best-known novel. "A Personal Matter." was published a year later, in 1964
In the novel, the narrator responds to the birth of a deformed child by getting flted from his job for drunkenness, . taking a mistress and plotting the baby's death with her. At the last minute, he changes his mind and takes up his parental responsibilities.
Qe became obsessed with the figure of the damaged or deformed child and much of his later work is concerned with both the literary and symbolic significance of that figure.
Oe was cited by the Swedish Academy today for his "poetic force (which) creates an imagined world, where life
and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today.' said an announcement by the literature committee of the Swedish (Academy)
The prize is worth 7 million kroner (933 000 dollars)
Oe said his initial reaction to the news he had won was one of astonishment.
Whenever 1 was named as a (Novel) candidate. I always thought li was a joke." he said T never thought about winning the prize.’’
Authors from Belgium. Portugal. Estonia. Hungary and Ireland were among those mentioned most often tn the runup to today's naming of the winner
Last year's winner was Toni Morrison from the United States. She was preceded by West Indian poet Derek Walcott of St Lucia. Nadine Gordimer of South Africa In 1991. and Mexican Octavio Paz tn 1990
Names mentioned this year Include Estonian novelist Jaan Kross. Belgian poet-playwright Hugo Claes. Hungarian authors Gyorgy Konrad. Irish poet' Seamus Heaney and two Portuguese novelists. Jose Saramago and Antoniao Lobo Antunes.
So too was the Syrian-born Lebanese poet All Ahmed Saeed, who writes under the name Adonis.