sentences:  Ōe Kenzaburō Prize
  
  The Kenzaburō Ōe Prize (大江健三郎賞) was a Japanese literary award sponsored by Kodansha (講談社) and established in 2006 to commemorate both the 100th anniversary of Kodansha's establishment and 50th anniversary of the writing life of Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎).The award was for Japanese literary novels published in the previous year, with the winning work selected solely by Ōe.