Kōbō Abe

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