In 1960 he co-founded 'Wakai Nihon no kai' (Group of Young Japan), which protested against the Japan-US Security Treaty with their actions. In 1994 Ôe was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his poetic strength that lead post-war Japanese literature in new directions. In addition to his short stories such as Lavish are the Dead (1958) and Women listening to the "rain tree" (1980/1983) a number of his novels have also been published in German language, including Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958), the trilogy of novels The Flaming Green Tree (1993), Tagame. Berlin – Tokyo (2000), The Silent Cry (2008) and The Tower of Treatment and the Planet (2011).