Who Won the 1994
Nobel Prize Peace

Lost Causes: The Novels of Kim Young-ha
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As Japan rose from the aftermath of the Second World War, so did vital men of letters like Kobo Abe, Oe Kenzaburo, and Yukio Mishima — names discussed in the West to this day. Japanese women of letters, a thread of unusual strength and length for an ...

Writer Oe calls for stopping moves to revise Constitution
Asahi Shimbun
By HIDEAKI ISHIBASHI/ Staff Writer. Nobel Prize-winning writer Kenzaburo Oe and fellow activists warned against the intensifying moves in the political world to revise Japan's pacifist Constitution. “Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is aiming to use an ...

Literatur-Nobelpreisträger Mo Yan rechnet mit "Geburtenregulierung" in China ab
Thüringische Landeszeitung
Die echte Gugu habe ihm für den Roman als "Quelle der Inspiration" gedient, schreibt Mo Yan. Und die Briefform gehe auf eine Begegnung mit Kenzaburo Oe zurück, dem japanischen Nobelpreisträger, der 2002 nach Gaomi kam, um Mo Yan zu besuchen.

'Le rane'
ANSA.it
L'affresco indimenticabile e coinvolgente è raccontato attraverso le quattro lunghe lettere del drammaturgo Kedou, 'Girino', (alter ego di Mo Yan), indirizzate a un amico, l'immaginario scrittore giapponese Sugitani Yoshihito (in realtà Kenzaburo Oe ...