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Kenzaburo Oe, left, receives the Nobel Prize for Literature from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm, in 1994. AP Photo
Kenzaburo Oe, left, receives the Nobel Prize for Literature from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm, in 1994. AP Photo
Japanese Nobel prize-winning writer Kenzaburo Oe dies aged 88
Author's publisher Kodansha said he died of natural causes on March 3