1. Metropolis - Big In Japan: Oe Kenzaburo 281 Nasubi Comedian 280 Doi Takako First female Speaker of the House 279 NakamuraKichiemon Retiring Kabuki actor 278 oe kenzaburo nobel prize winning http://metropolis.japantoday.com/biginjapanarchive299/278/biginjapaninc.htm

BIG IN JAPAN Oe Kenzaburo Courtesy of Kyodo Photo Service Born on the island of Shikoku in 1935, the son of a successful paper merchant, Nobel Prize-winning writer Oe grew up in an isolated, rural setting, his fertile imagination encouraged by his grandmother's retelling of legends and folk tales. He was an introverted, dreamy child, who excelled first at math and then at literature. Realizing the potential shown by his high school studies, Oe moved to the mainland in 1954 to enter Tokyo University. His fiction was published first in student magazines, and soon drew the attention of the literary world outside. In 1958 his short story "Shiiku" (Prize Stock) won the Akutagawa Prize for Literature, and in the same year his first novel came out - "Memeshiri Kouchi" (Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids). Oe, following his graduation at the age of 23, plunged directly into a career as a full-time writer. In 1960 he married Yukari, the sister of film director and old high-school friend, Itami Juzo. In the sixties Japan saw its new-found economic prosperity shaken by recurring student riots over the US-Japan defense treaty. Recording the atmosphere of nuclear paranoia following the Cuban missile crisis, Oe found himself under attack from both left and right-wingers for refusing to bow down to party dogma. The year 1963, however, was to bring a very personal tragedy; the couple's first son, Hikari, was born with a cerebral hernia - the surgery to save the infant's life resulted in irreversible brain damage.

2. Literature 1994 Press release, biography, nobel lecture.Category Arts Literature Authors O oe, kenzaburo...... b. 1935. The nobel Prize in Literature 1994 Press Release Presentation Speech kenzaburooe Biography nobel Lecture Banquet Speech nobel Symposia Other Resources. http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1994/

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1994 "who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today" Kenzaburo Oe Japan b. 1935 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1994 Press Release Presentation Speech Kenzaburo Oe ... Other Resources The 1994 Prize in: Physics Chemistry Physiology or Medicine Literature ... Economic Sciences Find a Laureate: Last modified June 16, 2000 The Official Web Site of The Nobel Foundation

3. Kenzaburo Oe - Nobel Lecture kenzaburo oe – nobel Lecture. nobel Lecture, December 7, 1994. Japan,The Ambiguous, and Myself. During the last catastrophic World http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1994/oe-lecture.html

Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1994 Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself During the last catastrophic World War I was a little boy and lived in a remote, wooded valley on Shikoku Island in the Japanese Archipelago, thousands of miles away from here. At that time there were two books by which I was really fascinated: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. The whole world was then engulfed by waves of horror. By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors. The protagonist of The Adventures of Nils is transformed into a little creature, understands birds' language and makes an adventurous journey. I derived from the story sensuous pleasures of various kinds. Firstly, living as I was in a deep wood on the Island of Shikoku just as my ancestors had done long ago, I had a revelation that this world and this way of life there were truly liberating. Secondly, I felt sympathetic and identified myself with Nils, a naughty little boy, who while traversing Sweden, collaborating with and fighting for the wild geese, transforms himself into a boy, still innocent, yet full of confidence as well as modesty. On coming home at last, Nils speaks to his parents. I think that the pleasure I derived from the story at its highest level lies in the language, because I felt purified and uplifted by speaking along with Nils. His worlds run as follows (in French and English translation):

4. Kenzaburo Oe Winner Of The 1994 Nobel Prize In Literature kenzaburo oe, a nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, at the nobel PrizeInternet Archive. kenzaburo oe. 1994 nobel Laureate in Literature http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1994a.html

K ENZABURO O E 1994 Nobel Laureate in Literature who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today. Background Born: 1935 Place of birth: Shikoku, Japan Residence: Japan Book Store The Silent Cry: A Novel Nobel Prize Winning Work A Personal Matter A Healing Family Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself : The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures The Music of Light : The Extraordinary Story of Hikari and Kenzaburo Oe (by Lindsley Cameron Other Books by or about Kenzaburo Oe Featured Internet Links Biography Nobel Lecture Press Release Search WWW Search The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Nobel News Links The Scribe of the Soul Nobel Prize-Winning Author Kenzaburo Oe Uses Pain, Humor to Speak to the World 'Nip the Buds': The Flowering of Dark Genius Japanese Author Wins Nobel Prize Links added by Nobel Internet Archive visitors Books in English of Kenzaburo Oe (submitted by Riichiro Saito) (submitted by Ezra Rashkow Interview with Kenzaburo Oe (submitted by Biju Parameswaran A RARE INTERVIEW WITH KENZABURO OE Premios Nobel Hispanoamericanos - EN CASTELLANO !!!!

5. Index Of Nobel Laureates In Literature ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF nobel PRIZE LAUREATES IN LITERATURE. Name, Year Awarded.Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1966. O'neill, Eugene Gladstone, 1936. oe, kenzaburo, 1994. http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/alpha.html

ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES IN LITERATURE Name Year Awarded Agnon, Shmuel Yosef Aleixandre, Vicente Andriic, Ivo Asturias, Miguel Angel ... Medicine We always welcome your feedback and comments

6. Kenzaburo Oe The Music of Light The Extraordinary Story of Hikari and kenzaburo oe by Lindsley 3) Other Japanese writer awarded with the nobel Prize Yasunari Kawabata http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/oe.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Kenzaburo Oe (1935-) Japanese novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. Oe has often dealt with marginal people and outcasts and isolation from individual level to social and cultural levels. Another central theme - as in the works of a number of other Japanese writers - is the conflict between traditions and modern Western culture. " My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. I too am living as a writer with this polarisation imprinted on me like a deep scar." (from Nobel Lecture, 1994) Kenzaburo Oe was born in a mountain village on the island of Shikoku, the smallest of the four main Japanese islands, where his family had lived for centuries. The village and the forests surrounding it later inspired several of Oe's pastoral works. In 1944 Oe's father died in the Pacific war, and in the same year he lost his grandmother, who had taught him art and oral performance. After attending a local school, Oe transferred to a high school in Matsuyama City. He won an admission to the University of Tokyo, where he studied French literature and received his B.A. in 1959. His final-year thesis was on the French writer Jean-Paul Sartre. Another important French writer for Oe was Albert Camus. During these years he started to write and explore his childhood, when the World War II had filled his mind with horror and excitement. His early works expressed his sense of the degradation and disorientation caused by Japan's surrender at the end of World War II. Sex and violence labelled his depiction of rootless young people. Oe wanted to experiment with language and create a new way of literary expression, which would capture the social and psychological changes that took place in his home country. He also had to cope with a personal handicap, the inferiority complex of a shy young man from the country, who stuttered and spoke with heavy Shokoku accent.

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Oe Kenzaburo Oe Kenzaburo, 1994 [Audio] (b. Jan. 31, 1935, Ehime prefecture, Shikoku, Japan), Japanese novelist whose works express the disillusionment and rebellion of his post-World War II generation. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. Oe came from a family of wealthy landowners, who lost most of their property with the occupation-imposed land reform following the war. He entered the University of Tokyo in 1954, graduating in 1959, and the brilliance of his writing while he was still a student caused him to be hailed the most promising young writer since Mishima Yukio. Oe first attracted attention on the literary scene with Shisha no ogori Lavish Are the Dead ), published in the magazine Bungakukai. His literary output was, however, uneven. His first novel, Memushiri kouchi Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids ), was highly praised, and he won a major literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, for Shiiku The Catch ). But his second novel, Wa re ra no jidai (1959; "Our Age"), was poorly received, as his contemporaries felt that Oe was becoming increasingly preoccupied with social and political criticism. Oe became deeply involved in the politics of the New Left. The murder in 1960 of Chairman Asanuma Inejiro of the Japanese Socialist Party by a right-wing youth inspired Oe to write two short stories in 1961, "Sebuntin" ("Seventeen") and "Seiji shonen shisu," the latter of which drew heavy criticism from right-wing organizations.

9. BRITANNICA Guide To The Nobel Prizes Kojinteki Na Taiken (A Personal Matter), courtesy oe kenzaburo; copyright 1964 byoe kenzaburo; originally published by Shinchosa, Tokyo; English translation http://www.britannica.com/nobel/aud_trans03.html

Oe Kenzaburo reading the first paragraph of his novel A Personal Matter audio in Japanese .wav or .au TRANSLATION "A Personal Matter" Bird, gazing down at the map of Africa that reposed in the showcase with the haughty elegance of a wild deer, stifled a short sigh. The salesgirls paid no attention, their arms and necks goosepimpled where the uniform blouses exposed them. Evening was deepening, and the fever of early summer, like the temperature of a dead giant, had dropped completely from the covering air. People moved as if groping in the dimness of the subconscious for the memory of midday warmth that lingered faintly in the skin: people heaved ambiguous sighs. Junehalf-past six: by now not a man in the city was sweating. But Bird's wife lay naked on a rubber mat, tightly shutting her eyes like a shot pheasant falling out of the sky, and while she moaned her pain and anxiety and expectation, her body was oozing globes of sweat. Kojinteki Na Taiken A Personal Matter

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11. Total Archive For 1994-1995: Kenzaburo Oe (Nobel Price For Literature) Speach: R kenzaburo oe (nobel price for Literature) speach Reflector list. JanEngvald LDC (Jan.Engvald@LDC.lu.se) Tue, 13 Dec 1994 185722 +0100 http://baby.indstate.edu/CU-SeeMe/event_archive/total_94/0007.html

Kenzaburo Oe (Nobel price for Literature) speach: Reflector list Jan Engvald LDC Jan.Engvald@LDC.lu.se Tue, 13 Dec 1994 18:57:22 +0100 Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Michael Sattler, San Francisco: "E-Mail Problems" Previous message: Michael Sattler, San Francisco: "Final URL for www.indstate.edu CU-SeeMe web pages is" Wednesday 14 Dec at around 10:30 MET (09:30 GMT) the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Kenzaburo Oe, will visit Lund University at the Academic Community building (AF) in Lund. He will make a speach for about half an hour and then play music made by his son, Hikari. The complete performance will probably last an hour. We intend to broadcast this event using CU-SeeMe. There will hopefully be a taped retransmission the same day at 19:00 MET (18:00 GMT). We will provide two different versions, one for those with good network bandwidth to us (most universities in Scandinavia) and one for all others. They will occupy 200 kb/s and 56 kb/s, respectively. The low bandwidth version uses 16 kb/s audio, you need CU-SeeMe

12. Total Archive For 1994-1995: Kenzaburo Oe (Nobel Prize For Literature) Speach kenzaburo oe (nobel Prize for Literature) speach. Jan EngvaldLDC (Jan.Engvald@LDC.lu.se) Sat, 10 Dec 1994 002247 +0100 http://baby.indstate.edu/CU-SeeMe/refl_archives/total_94/0002.html

Kenzaburo Oe (Nobel Prize for Literature) speach Jan Engvald LDC Jan.Engvald@LDC.lu.se Sat, 10 Dec 1994 00:22:47 +0100 Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Michael Sattler, San Francisco: "Final URL for www.indstate.edu CU-SeeMe web pages is" Previous message: list-admin@baby.indstate.edu: "Welcome to cusm-reflector" Wednesday 14 Dec at around 10:15 MET (09:15 GMT) the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Kenzaburo Oe, will visit Lund University at the Academic Community building (AF) in Lund. He will make a speach for about half an hour and then play music made by his son, Hikari. The complete performance will probably last an hour. We intend to broadcast this event using CU-SeeMe. If you are a reflector manager and want to link your reflector to ours, please mail me on Monday and tell me your reflector IP nr. I will then put in an ADMIT-BCC-CLIENT link to it and mail back the IP nr for your OBTAIN-BCC link. On Tuesday I will send out the list of reflectors that will broadcast this event, so all of you others can choose the nearest one to visit.

13. BrothersJudd.com - Review Of Kenzaburo Oe's A Personal Matter oe and Sharon Kinsella (Prometheus) The nobel Prize in Literature 1994 (nobel Site)-kenzaburo oe Winner of the 1994 nobel Prize in Literature (nobel Prize http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/31/Perso

@import url("css/iereview.css"); Search WWW Search brothersjudd.com Home Reviews Links Blog ... A Personal Matter Nobel Prize Winners (1984) Author Info: Kenzaburo Oe (Translator: John Nathan) Japan has lost the power to connect the principle or theory and reality. I think literature's value is in making those connections. That's the mission of literature. Morals are significant. -Kenzaburo Oe Kenzaburo Oe is probably the most highly regarded of Japan's post-war novelists and A Personal Matter is certainly his best known book. It is the harrowing, semi-autobiographical story of a parent's worst nightmare and of a brutal moral dilemma. As the novel opens, the twenty-something protagonist, whose immaturity is reflected in the fact that he retains his boyhood nickname of Bird, anxiously awaits the birth of his first child, but dreams of escaping his mundane domestic life in Japan and traveling instead to Africa. When Bird's son is born with a herniated brainone doctor nervously giggles that it looks like he has two headshe faces a choice between starving the child to death or financing exorbitantly expensive surgery with little chance of success. Even a successful operation is likely to cause significant brain damage. Overwhelmed, Bird seeks to avoid his responsibilities by twitteringlike his namesakebetween alcohol, an old girlfriend and his African fantasies, avoiding his job, his wife, his child and most of all, the decisions which need to be made. Just hours after finally delivering the child to a back alley abortionist who will kill him and preparing to use the money he has saved up not on the prospective surgical procedures, but to run away to Africa with his girlfriend, Bird has an epiphany in a gay bar and, at last, determines to grow up and accept the mantle of responsibility that he has always sought to avoid. The story ends with the baby having been successfully operated on, though his future mental development remains in doubt, and with Bird's father-in-law telling him that his childish nickname is no longer appropriate because he is a changed man.

14. Harapan's Bookshelf: Nobel Prize '94: Kenzaburo Oe the human predicament today. press release Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself TheNobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures kenzaburo oe / Hardcover / Published http://www.harapan.co.jp/english/e_books/E_B_nobel94_oe_e.htm

Search Now: Search: English Books Japanese Books Both Keywords: Japanese Amazon.com customer service Amazon.com Shipping Information Are you in Japan? Are you interested in Japan? English Books in Japan Books in Japanese Nobel Prize '94: Literature Kenzabro Oe (Japan 1935-) last updated on "who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." press release Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself : The Nobel Prize Speech and Other Lectures Kenzaburo Oe / Hardcover / Published 1995 The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath Kenzaburo Oe (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1985 An Echo of Heaven Kenzaburo Oe, Margaret Mitsutani (Translator) / Hardcover / Published 1996 Escape from the Wasteland : Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, No) Susan J. Napier / Hardcover / Published 1996 Grand Street 55: Egos Kenzaburo Oe, et al / Paperback / Published 1996

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US sales in association with: UK sales in association with: Canadian sales in association with: Second hand sales in association with: all of Catharton just Authors Catharton Authors O : Oe, Kenzaburo Kenzaburo Oe Bored? Meet people at Café Catharton Websites: Kenzaburo Oe [imsa.edu] The 1994 Nobel Prize Lecture The Nobel Prize in Literature 1994 Kenzaburo Oe [sci.fi] Message Boards: Suggest or Request a board Mailing Lists: Suggest or Request a list Chat Rooms: Suggest or Request a room Can't find what you want here? Try searching Google for Kenzaburo Oe List of Works: The Silent Cry Correct this list of works ... if you need help, peruse this site's Frequently Asked Questions

16. Oe, Kenzaburo novel. If you're looking for the speech delivered by oe kenzaburo duringhis nobel Prize presentation, it's here too. Personal feelings http://www.ucalgary.ca/~xyang/j341/ooepg.htm

This page is prepared by Jack Cheng and Kian Yong Yeo) Background: -He married Itami Juzo's sister in 1960. -His son (光) was born in 1963. The birth of 光 caused a change in his writing. He was now writing about his son, and the relationship they shared. His first novel after the birth of his son, A Personal Matter, is about a father dealing with the birth of a mentally handicapped child. He has written several stories with similar themes, which he refers to as his "idiot son" stories. -These stories were mainly significant in his writing the Nobel Prize in 1994. -After accepting the Nobel Prize, He refused to accept the Order of Cultural Merit, one of Japan's highest honors. He did this because of his distrust of the Japanese government. -He was finished writing novels. His stated reason for this is that he wrote his fiction to give a voice to his son, and now his son has his own voice. -He has been giving lectures in universities in the United States, Germany and Japan in recent years. ( Oe Kenzaburo with his son Hikari) Additional notes: Brain herniation Alternative names: cerebellar herniation; herniation of the brain; herniation syndrome; transtentorial herniation; uncal herniation

17. Oe Kenzaburo: "A Personal Matter" Won the nobel Prize in literature in 1994. Grotesque Realism. This is theterm that has been used to describe kenzaburo oefs writing style. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~xyang/j341_01f/oef20.htm

This page is prepared by Thomas Court and Tsuey-Lin Yap Oe, Kenzaburo Biography Grotesque Realism "A Personal Matter" The Real Story Biography Kenzaburo Oe was born in 1935, in a small Japanese town on the island of Shikoku. The women of the Oe clan had long assumed the role of storytellers. After his fatherfs death during the war, his mother took over his fatherfs role as educator. Oefs mother made sure that he had access to books as a child. Oefs favourite books as a young boy were "The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Strange Adventures of Nils Holgersson." These two books left him with an impression he says "He will carry to the grave." The Second World War started when he was six. Oe and his peers received military education in schools. Oe recalls, gThe Ethics teacher would call the boys to the front of the class and demand of them one by one what they would do if the Emperor commanded them to die. Shaking with fright, the child would answer: "I would die, Sir, I would rip open my belly and die." Students passed the Imperial portrait with their eyes to the ground, afraid their eyeballs would explode if they looked His Imperial Majesty in the face.hKenzaburo had a recurring dream in which the Emperor swopped out of the sky like a bird, his body covered with white feathers. On the day the Emperor announced the Surrender in August 1945, Oe was a ten-year-old boy living in a mountain village. Here is how he recalls the event: "The adults sat around their radios and cried. The children gathered outside in the dusty road and whispered their bewilderment. We were most confused and disappointed by the fact that the Emperor had spoken in a human voice, no different from any adultfs. None of us understood what he was saying, but we all had heard his voice. One of my friends could even imitate it cleverly. Laughing, we surrounded him - a twelve year old in grimy shorts who spoke with the Emperorfs voice. A minute later we felt afraid. We looked at one another; no one spoke. How could we believe that an august presence of such awful power had become an ordinary human being on a designated summer day?"

18. Japanese Literature Resources Soseki Museum in London oe kenzaburo. oe kenzaburo Fan Club Page oekenzaburo's nobel Prize Acceptance Address. Mishima Yukio. Mishima http://www.anotherscene.com/jpntext/jwriter.html

Viewing Japanese Web Sites in Japanese Cross-Platform, Without Special Software http://www.lfw.org/shodouka/ Go to this site, and type in the URL of the Japanese site you wish to view. This site then draws that site for you while you wait. Developed and maintained by Ka-Ping Yee, who's been hounded by several special interest groups for years, who objected to this free flow of Japanese language without mediation. Slow but useful. For Japanese Windows Internet Explorer . Download either Navigator (at least 3.0) or Communicator (4.0 and up). Under the Viewing menu, click on "Encoding." Change the Encoding Type from Western to Japanese (Autodetect). For Unix See the NTT Site for Infomation Unix Japanese FAQ General Information Word Processing in Japanese Council on East Asian Libraries Humanities Web Sites in Japan Philosophy and sociology WWW in Japan Japanese Texts on the Internet Nihon Bungaku A list of Japanese literary texts electronically archived. The list is organized by period, from 712 C. E. ( Kojiki ) to Taisho (1912-1926).

19. A&L Spring Lectures News Release - Kenzaburo Oe sa.ucsb.edu. Japanese author and 1994 nobel Prize laureate KenzaburoOe to read from his work at UCSB. Summary Facts Distinguished http://www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/archive/1999-2000/pr/oe.htm

May 9, 2000 Contact: Roman Baratiak e-mail: baratiak-r@sa.ucsb.edu Japanese author and 1994 Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburo Oe to read from his work at UCSB Summary Facts: Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the UCSB College of Creative Studies Kenzaburo Oe Prolific, international award-winning Japanese author to read from his work An Afternoon with the Author and Nobel Prize Laureate Thursday, June 1 4 p.m. / UCSB MultiCultural Center Theater Admission is free Kenzaburo Oe, the prolific writer whose many works include A Personal Matter, The Silent Cry, Hiroshima Notes and A Quiet Life, will read from and discuss his work in An Afternoon with the Author and Nobel Prize Laureate on Thursday, June 1 at 4 p.m. in the UCSB MultiCultural Center Theater. Admission to this event is free. Courtesy of the UCSB Bookstore, copies of books by Oe will be available for purchase and signing at the event. The New York Times at the time the Nobel Prize was announced. New York Times In 1963, his son was born with severe brain damage; two months later, Oe visited Hiroshima to talk with bomb survivors. Out of those personal experiences came his famous 1964 novel, A Personal Matter

20. OE KENZABURO AND THE FIFTY-YEAR POSTWAR PERIOD Nobuko Pugarelli to say that on the occasion of Yeats's winning the nobel prize, William 13. oe Kenzaburohas come a long way since his first successful story, The Arrogance of http://mcel.pacificu.edu/aspac/papers/scholars/pugarelli/pugarelli.htm

OE KENZABURO AND THE FIFTY-YEAR POSTWAR PERIOD Nobuko Pugarelli Professor of Japanese University of Hawaii Honolulu Community College Biographical Sketch Oe Kenzaburo was born on January 31, 1935, in Ose village, Kita Province, in Ehime prefecture on the southern island of Shikoku. When he was six, the Pacific War broke out; at nine, he lost both his father and grandmother. When he was ten, an A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and the Emperor announced the unconditional surrender of Japan. In 1954 Oe was admitted to Tokyo University and majored in French literature. Oe's first commercially published story, "Shisha no ogori (The Arrogance of the Dead)," missed the Akutagawa Prize by one vote. He was awarded that prize the following year, 1958, for "Shiiku (The Catch)." After graduating from the Tokyo University, Oe married Yukari in 1960, the oldest daughter of a film script writer, Itami Mansaku. In May 1960 he traveled to the People's Republic of China as a member of the Japan-China Literary Delegation and met with Mao Zedong. In 1961 he traveled through Eastern and Western Europe, and the Soviet Union, and met Sartre in Paris. In June 1963 his first boy, Hikari, was born with serious brain damage. Oe put a halt to his writing and all other works, and visited Hiroshima. Hiroshima noto (Notes on Hiroshima) was published later in 1965. During this personally very difficult time in the 1960s he wrote, among other works, Kojinteki na taiken (A Personal Matter) based of his experience with his baby, which won the Shinchosha Literary Prize in 1964; and "Manen Gannen no futtoboru (The Football Game of the First Year of Manen, 1967)" after he came back from his trips to Okinawa, the United States, and Australia.

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