1994 Nobel Prize in Literature

1994 Nobel Prize in Literature
Kenzaburō Ōe
"who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today."
Date
  • 13 October 1994 (1994-10-13) (announcement)
  • 10 December 1994
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First award1901
WebsiteOfficial website

The 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Japanese novelist Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023) "who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." He is the second Japanese Nobel laureate in Literature after Yasunari Kawabata was awarded in 1968.

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