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FILE - Japanese Nobel Prize winning author Kenzaburo Oe poses during the inauguration of the 32nd Paris Book Fair, which focused on Japanese writers, March 15, 2012. Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd. said Monday, March 13, 2023 that Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe died of old age. Oe's darkly poetic novels were built from a childhood during Japan's postwar occupation and parenthood with a disabled son. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)