Kenzaburo Oe was born on January 31, 1935, in a village on Shikoku, the smallest of the four Japanese islands. In 1994, Oe won the Nobel Prize for Literature, securing his place as a respected writer in Europe and the U.S. That same year, he declined Japan’s highest honor for art – the Order of Culture – because this award had ties to Japan’s Emperor System. To this day, Oe continues to live in Japan and write. In a 2007 interview with the Paris Review, he said he spends a third of his time reading, a third writing, and the other third devoting himself to his son Hikari. His short story ‘Aghwee the Sky Monster’, also written in 1964, tells this story from another angle, with another outcome – the father in this one rejects the handicapped son. Oe continues to write semi-autobiographically in novels such as The Pinch Runner Memorandum (1976) and A Quiet Life (1990).
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