Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata

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Born

Jun 14, 1899

Died

Apr 16, 1972 (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.

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