Yasunari Kawabata
  • Birthplace

    Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

  • Birthday
    June 14, 1899

    Deathday
    April 16, 1972

Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award.

Yasunari Kawabata is known for...
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