Kenzaburo Oe, the famed Japanese writer, died aged 88 years old on March 3, though the news of his passing has only just been shared online.
Despite writing over 50 works of different kinds, and winning nine major prizes including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the French Legion of Honour, Oe is less-well known in the UK than his Japanese contemporaries Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto.
