Kenzaburo Oe showing his Nobel Prize medal and diploma after the award ceremony on 10 December 1994.

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Princess Christina of Sweden shares a light moment with Kenzaburo Oe (right), and Reinhard Selten, Laureate in Economic Sciences, at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, on 10 December 1994. Copyright © Svensk Reportagetjänst 1994
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1994 laureates assembled at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm in December 1994. Front row: Medicine laureates Martin Rodbell and Alfred G. Gilman, economic sciences laureate John F. Nash Jr., chemistry laureate George A. Olah, economic sciences laureate Reinhard Selten and physic laureate Clifford G. Shull. Back row: Physic laureate Bertram N. Brockhouse, literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe and economic sciences laureate John C. Harsanyi.

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Kenzaburo Oe visits the Nobel Foundation, December 1994.

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Kenzaburo Oe during a visit to the Nobel Foundation, December 1994. To the left, Michael Sohlman, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation.

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Kenzaburo Oe, 2004.