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The author decides to stay in “the periphery” and promises not to collaborate “with those who are in the center or in power.”<\/p>\n
The birth in 1963 of a disabled son, Hikari (“Light” in Japanese), turns his personal life upside down and gives new impetus to his work.<\/p>\n
“Writing and living with my son overlap and those two activities can only deepen each other. I told myself that this is surely where my imagination could take shape,” he later explained.<\/p>\n
a personal matter<\/i> (1964) will be the first novel in a long series of books inspired by his private life. In it, he narrates the life of a young father faced with the birth of a seriously disabled baby, until considering killing him.<\/p>\n
Their Hiroshima Notes<\/i> (1965) are a compendium of testimonies of victims from August 6, 1945. Later, in Okinawan Notes<\/i> (1970), focuses on the tragic fate of this small archipelago on the outskirts of Japan, which will not be returned by the United States until 1972.<\/p>\n
Reviled by Japanese nationalists, Oe will be accused of defamation decades later for having recalled in this essay that many civilians were forced to commit suicide by the Japanese military during the Battle of Okinawa <\/b>in 1945. The writer will win the trial after a long process.<\/p>\n
In 1994, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for creating “with great poetic force”<\/b>“an imaginary world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting portrait of the fragile human situation”, in the words of the committee.<\/p>\n
Shortly after his rejection of the Order of Culture, a Japanese distinction awarded by the emperor, causes a stir in the country.<\/p>\n
“I will not recognize any authority, any value higher than democracy,” claimed the author, faithful to his ideals.<\/p>\n
Oe leaves behind three children, including Hikari, a renowned composer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n