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Japanese Kenzaburo Oe, left, receives the Nobel Prize for Literature from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, right, at the Concert Hall in Stockholm Sweden Saturday Dec. 10, 1994. Novelist Kenzaburo Oe is awarded due to his "poetic force (that) creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today". (AP Photo/Gunnar Ask)