Japanese Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe dead at 88

(ANSA-AFP) - TOKYO, MARCH 13 - Japanese progressive and nonconformist icon Kenzaburo Oe has died at the age of 88, publisher Kodansha said on Monday.

Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1994 died of old age in the early hours of March 3 ", declared the publisher in a statement, explaining that his funeral has already been celebrated by his family. (ANSA-AFP) (ANSA).