Kenzaburo Oe Has Passed Away

The Nobel Prize winner in litterature, Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, has passed away. 

It is not common that Japanese writers get the Nobel Prize. It is only natural that a Swedish academy deciding on the prize will more often give it to writers whose works are more readily available for them. This also makes the prize to Oe all the more special. If you want to read novels by a Japanese writer, I guess those of Oe may be a good choice.