
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江 健三郎, Ōe Kenzaburō, 31 January 1935 – 3 March 2023) ek Japanese lekhak aur contemporary Japanese literature ke khaas jan rahaa. Uske novels, chhotaa khissa aur essays, French aur American literature aur literary theory se strongly influenced rahaa, political, social aur philosophical issues se deal karat rahaa, jisme nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, aur existentialism rahaa. 1994 me uske Nobel Prize in Literature dewa gais rahaa "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today" ke khaatir.
