Kenzaburo Oe, the Japanese Nobel laureate who died at the age of 88 – Corriere.it

Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994, also known as a supporter of the pacifist Constitution and against nuclear energywho died of old age at the age of 88. This was announced on Monday by Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd. One of Japan’s most celebrated authors in the post-World War II era, Oe led a civic movement calling for the elimination of nuclear power plants in the late 1920s. 70, in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

Repeating the mistake by showing, through the construction of nuclear reactors, the same disrespect for human life is the worst possible betrayal of the memory of the victims of Hiroshima, Oe wrote in an article for the US magazine `The New Yorker, 10 days after the disaster. In 1994 he became the second Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize in literature, after Yasunari Kawabata. With poetic force (Oe) he creates an imaginary world, where life and myth condense to form a puzzling picture of today’s human situation, declared the Swedish Academy in awarding the prize.