Director

Kōbō Abe

Writing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 15

TMDB ID: 96807

IMDb ID: nm0008356

Known for: Writing

Born: March 7, 1924

Died: January 22, 1993

Age: 68

Place of birth: Kita, Tokyo, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1954 - 2024

Years active: 71

Average TMDB rating: 7.52

Wikidata: Q186273

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Biography

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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