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...life" and to "assess the nature of Hemingway's influence on world literature" through the discussion of "significant themes in Hemingway's writing career including Africa, war, nature, creativity and despair." The many panelists were great writers and journeymen, both: the Nobel laureates Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe and Derek Walcott as well as critically and popularly acclaimed authors E. Annie Proulx, Tobias Wolff, Chinua Achebe, Frederick Busch, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton and dozens of others. A hundred years after Hemingway's birth and 38 years after his death, the subject of the conference was how Hemingway has held...

Author: By Joshua Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Who's Afraid of Mr. Hemingway? | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

Kenzaburo Oe was a child of 10 when World War II ended; occupying foreigners, ruins, humiliations and guilt filled the Japanese landscape of his adolescence. His early fiction and essays were unusually intense by Japanese standards, tinged with pessimism and despair. After 1963, when his first son was born brain damaged, Oe's work became even more personal; a helpless or deformed child figure recurs, suggesting both implacable fate and the possibility of redemption. Compared with the four previous laureates -- Octavio Paz, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott and Toni Morrison -- Oe is little known but, thanks to the Swedish Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bittersweet Honors | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

Kenzaburo Oe, a novelist who captured the alienation and moral malaise of Japan's "Westernized" postwar generation, became his country's second recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. (Japan's other winner was Yasunari Kawabata, in 1968.) Today's award triggered an outpouring of national pride -- newscasts led with the story and the Prime Minister issued congrats. The warm fuzzies all around contrast with the 59-year-old Oe's dark vision, steeped in the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOBEL WATCH. . . JAPAN'S GLOOM & DOOM NOVELIST TAKES THE PRIZE | 10/13/1994 | See Source »

...medical community has sought structural solutions. In a recent report, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, which governs residencies and internships, found that "the nation has "oe few generalists and too many specialists." As a result, the council slapped a one-year moratorium on recognizing new sub-specialties. A number of organizations support a quota for medical school graduating classes: 50 percent of graduates must be primary care practitioners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Unhealthy Medical System | 2/23/1993 | See Source »

...Really?" she said, "`phoenix?' Spelled 'oe...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: PHOENIX | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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