Yasunari Kawabata
Writing
Birthday
1899/06/14
Day of death
1972/04/16 (72 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Also know as
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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.
