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Kōbō Abe

Kōbō Abe

Known For Writing
Birthday Mar 07, 1924
Died Jan 22, 1993 (68)
Birthplace Kita, Tokyo, Japan
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Updated Aug 17, 2025
Entry Date Aug 17, 2025
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Kōbō Abe, pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe (March 7, 1924 – January 22, 1993) was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. Abe has been often compared to Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia for his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society and his modernist ... sensibilities. Among the honors bestowed on him were the Akutagawa Prize in 1951 for The Crime of S. Karuma, the Yomiuri Prize in 1962 for Woman in the Dunes, and the Tanizaki Prize in 1967 for the play Friends. Kenzaburō Ōe stated that Abe deserved the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he himself had won (Abe was nominated multiple times).

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The Box Man

The Box Man

2002

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Friends

Friends

1987

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