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...South of the Border, West of the Sun, 1992 Like Bergman and Oe, Murakami never tires of his archetypes - in this case the lovelorn, middle-aged male loner. In this tale of lost innocence, a jazz-club owner approaching his 40s reunites with his elusive childhood sweetheart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By the Book | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...board will bring both new businesses and skilled workers to New Zealand. In a small, remote country, the attraction of studying or working elsewhere - especially for high achievers - is strong. The overseas experience (OE) is a rite of passage, particularly for men. During the past 25 years, the outflow of young men has become a deluge. For thirtysomething Kiwi women, finding a mate has never been more difficult - they outnumber blokes in the 30-39 age group by 25,000. The differential stalls birth rates and has serious implications for the sustainability of the country's tax regime and generous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kiwis Take Wing | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...readers in a 1996 poll as their favorite novel. Mo Yan's Northeast Gaomi County, a fictional realm based on his hardscrabble hometown in the eastern province of Shandong, is as vivid a spot on the literary landscape as William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha or Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Kenzaburo Oe, a Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is among many admirers who insist that Mo Yan deserves the gong himself. Given the prize committee's distaste for success, that means he'll probably never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Up Half the Sky | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

Other recipients included architect Frank O. Gehry, Intel Corporation co-founder Andrew S. Grove, attorney Judith R. Hope, philantropist Katherine B. Loker, biologist Maclyn McCarty, civil rights leader and judge Constance Baker Motley, author Kenzaburo Oe, symphony director Seiji Ozawa, liguistics professor Noam Chomsky and physicist Nicolaas Bloembergen...

Author: By William P. Bohlen and Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Amid Pageantry, 6,165 Graduates Receive Degrees | 6/23/2000 | See Source »

...Oe has received the 1989 Prix Europalia and many other international literary honors...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Eleven To Receive Honorary Degrees | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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