Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994, has died at the age of 88, according to NHK.. The reasons for the death of the writer are not known..

Oe is the second Japanese author to win the award.. Yasunari Kawabata was the first to receive the Literature Prize in 1968..

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Oe is the author of several dozen works. The most famous of them are “Late Youth”, “Personal Experience”, “Football of 1860”, “Waters Embraced Me to My Soul”, “Games of Contemporaries”, “Pinchrunner Notes”, “Women Listening to a Rain Tree”.

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