Kobo Abe (安部公房 "Abe Kōbō", pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe) was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. His name is romanized as "Kobo Abe" in Vintage International's English-language editions of his book, while Columbia University Press offers "Three Plays by Kōbō Abe". Wikipedia
Abe Kb (pron. "AH-bay KOH-boh") (1924-1993) stands out dramatically from his contemporaries in postwar Japanese literature. www.ibiblio.org/abekobo/index.html
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Kobo Abe Biography and List of Works Books by Kobo Abe Shop used books at Biblio.com Avant-garde novelist and playwright who represented the outsider in the Japanese literary world of the 1960s and 1970s. www.litweb.net/biography/90/Kobo_Abe.html
Kobo Abe , also known as Kimifusa Abe, was a Japanese writer who was born in Kita, Tokyo in 1924. Abe grew up in Manchuria, where his father had taught at a medical college. In 1941, Abe went back to Japan and began studying at Tokyo Imperial Universtiy www.chinatownconnection.com/kobo-abe.htm
Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. In 1948 he received a medical degree from Tokyo Imperial University, but he never practiced medicine. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=31
