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Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe known for his books on pacifism and his disabled son died earlier this month, on March 3, in Japan , a statement released by publisher Kodansha said..
In 1994, Oe became the second Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, after Kawabata Yasunari...
Family members have already held the funeral of the writer, who died of old age, the publisher confirmed...
He won the Akutagawa Prize an award for young authors in 1958 for his fiction book "The Catch," in which he wrote about an American pilot captured by Japanese villagers during the war...
The Nobel committee described Oe as an author "who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today..
