Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Writing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1899-06-14

  • Day of Death

    1972-04-16 (72 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Biography

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.

Known For

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