His second novel, Our Age, was poorly received, and was soon followed by the controversial short story "Seventeen".
His second novel, Our Age, was poorly received, and was soon followed by the controversial short story "Seventeen". He first attracted attention with Lavish Are the Dead and his first novel, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, which followed a period in which the influence of the novel Huckleberry Finn inspired a desire to become a forest ranger. He won the Akutagawa Prize for The Catch, while later works like Awake, New Man and The Silent Cry were influenced by his brain-damaged son. Author of A Personal Matter, FTP, who was this Japanese author, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1994?
His second novel, Our Age, was poorly received, and was soon followed by the controversial short story "Seventeen".
Kenzaburo Oe