A Personal Matter

Press Reviews

• The Guardianby Maya Jaggi · Feb 2005

  <p>Kenzaburo O&#235; lost his father in the second world war and says the Japanese defeat is what made him a novelist. A cult figure, he wrote a cycle of books about his relationship with his autistic son, and won the Nobel prize for literature. Now 70, and a fierce critic of resurgent militarism, he will be in Hiroshima next month to mark the city's destruction 60 years ago.</p>

• The Guardianby Maya Jaggi · Aug 2002

  <p>Maya Jaggi hails Kenzaburo Oe's moving story of fatherly commitment, Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!</p>

• The Guardianby Adam Mars-Jones · Aug 2002

  <p>William Blake offers Nobel Prize-winner Kenzaburo Oe a key to explore his relationship with his disabled son in Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!</p>