For 10 points, name the Japanese Nobel Laureate who wrote The Silent Cry.
An early work by this author is set in his hometown and sees a group of children secretly befriend a stranded African-American pilot before the narrator's father crushes his skull with a hatchet. An obese man uses bicycle handlebars to transport his equally fat son Eeyore in this author's short novel Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness. Another work centers on the brothers (*) Takashi and Mitsudokoro and opens with the story of a man who committed suicide by hanging himself after painting his head red and putting a cucumber in his anus. This author's own experiences raising a mentally handicapped son figure in numerous works including A Personal Matter. For 10 points, name the Japanese Nobel Laureate who wrote The Silent Cry.
An early work by this author is set in his hometown and sees a group of children secretly befriend a stranded African-American pilot before the narrator's father crushes his skull with a hatchet.
Kenzaburo Oe