TOKYO, Mar 13 Famed writer and Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe has died in Japan, the Kyodo news agency reported, citing Kodansha publishing house.
The writer died on March 3, his death was reported just now. He became the second Japanese writer after Yasunari Kawabata to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He received the award in 1994. Oe was also awarded numerous Japanese literary prizes Akutagawa, Noma, Shinchosha and others.
In the USSR and Russia, his works «The waters embraced me to my soul», «Football of 1860», «Late Youth» and others gained the greatest popularity. His books were widely disseminated in translations by the outstanding Russian Japanese scholar and translator Vladimir Grivnin, who knew Oe personally and was friends with the writer.
The writer was 88 years old, the report says that he died of old age.