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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 14, 1899
Deathday: April 16, 1972
Popularity:
1985-12-03
1968-12-11